MANILA, Philippines—An official of a television network has asked the Quezon City Prosecutor’s Office to inhibit itself from the final resolution of the slander complaint filed against her by actress and talent manager Annabelle Rama.

In a motion to inhibit filed on October 1, Wilma Galvante, a GMA Network executive, asked the Department of Justice (DoJ) to take over the task of resolving Rama’s complaint against her which was earlier dismissed for lack of probable cause.

Galvante, the senior vice president for entertainment, said she was asking the assistant city prosecutor assigned to the case to inhibit himself because Rama had made insinuations about his integrity.

The insinuations were contained in Rama’s petition in which she asked the prosecutor to reverse his decision ordering the dismissal of the case she filed against Galvante for lack of probable cause.

“Considering the insinuations of the complainant found in her motion for reconsideration which manifested her doubt in the integrity of the city prosecutor, respondent moves for [his] inhibition [from the case] to avoid any similar insinuations,” Galvante’s motion read.

She asked that the DoJ be tasked with resolving Rama’s motion for reconsideration.

The grave slander complaint filed by Rama against Galvante stemmed from an earlier word war between them over the contract of Rama’s talent, JC de Vera.

In her complaint, Rama alleged that Galvante said derogatory things about her during the latter’s conversation with De Vera in the TV executive’s office on February 16.

Rama claimed that Galvante insulted her when the latter gave De Vera the impression that “she was incompetent as a manager whose unreasonable demands would make him vulnerable to being sued.”

The assistant city prosecutor, in his resolution, said he found nothing derogatory or insulting about the alleged statements made by Galvante about Rama, adding that the statements were more of a reminder to De Vera that he should comply with the provisions of his contract with the TV network.

Consequently, Rama filed a 10-page motion for reconsideration on August 17 in which she claimed that the investigating prosecutor might have committed errors in his appreciation of facts.

“Despite his own findings that there was an unlawful act committed, and therefore there was probable cause, he nonetheless dismissed the case,” Rama said.