Pangilinan, Revilla file Senate reso honoring Robredo

Published August 22, 2012 10:55am

(Updated 3 p.m.) Senators Francis Pangilinan and Ramon Revilla Jr. have filed separate resolutions seeking to honor the late Interior Secretary Jesse Robredo.

Revilla filed Senate Resolution No. 848 which seeks to "honor the memory" of Robredo while Pangilinan filed Senate Resolution No. 843 which seeks to honor the late secretary “for his outstanding contributions to governmental reforms in the country.”

Both resolutions also seek to express the sincerest condolences and sympathy of the Senate over the death of Robredo.

"The death of the good secretary is a great loss to his family, his friends, his colleagues and to the Filipino nation as well," Revilla said in his resolution.

“The Filipino people are mourning for the untimely death of Secretary Robredo. The country lost a rare and exemplary public servant in the person of Secretary Robredo,” Pangilinan said in his resolution. Both Pangilinan and Robredo belong to the ruling Liberal Party.

In the resolution, Pangilinan cited Robredo’s achievements as mayor of Naga City, president of the League of Cities of the Philippines, chairman of the Regional Development Council in Bicol, and secretary of the DILG.

He also cited in the measure Robredo’s awards, including the 2000 Ramon Magsaysay Award for Government Service, the 1998 Konrad Adenauer Medal of Excellence as Most Outstanding City Mayor of the Philippines, and the first-ever “Dangal ng Bayan” Award of the Civil Service Commission. Revilla likewise mentioned in his resolution how Robredo was cited as one of the Ten Outstanding Persons of the World and Ten Outstanding Young Men of the Philippines.

Robredo, his aide Senior Inspector Jun Abrasado, veteran pilot and flight instructor Jessup Bahinting and his Nepali co-pilot Kshitiz Chand, were aboard a Piper Seneca plane heading for Naga City from Cebu when the plane crashed off Masbate Saturday.

Only Abrasado survived the crash.

On Tuesday, Robredo's body was recovered, three days after the tragedy. Retrieval operations for the bodies of the pilots are continuing as of posting time. — Kimberly Jane Tan/RSJ, GMA News

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