A Filipino was sentenced to 4 months in jail on Monday for making xenophobic and inflammatory remarks about Singaporeans and lying to the police, Channel News Asia reported.

Ello Ed Mundsel Bello, 28, had been convicted of three charges – one count under the Sedition Act for promoting feelings of ill-will and hostility, and two counts of providing false information to police. An additional charge under the Sedition Act, and another for lying to police, were taken into consideration in Bello’s sentencing.

In a Facebook post made on January 2015, Bello, then a nurse at Tan Tock Seng Hospital, called Singaporeans “loosers (sic) in their own country”. “We take their jobs, their future, their women, and soon, we will evict all SG loosers out of their own country”, Bello wrote, adding that Singapore would be the “new Filipino state”.

He later deleted the post and lied to police that he did not make the comments, even lodging a false police report over the matter.

Tan Tock Seng Hospital subsequently dismissed him over the incident, after discovering through their own investigations that Bello had made three other online posts in the same vein in October 2014.

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