Justice Secretary Menardo Guevarra has been asked on Monday (April 26) to have the Administrative Order (AO) 35 inter-agency committee on extrajudicial killings investigate the 2020 death of former National Anti-Poverty Commission (NAPC) consultant Jory Porquia.
In a letter addressed to Guevarra, Jory’s son, Lean, lamented that the Philippine National Police (PNP) is not investigating the case of the slain Bayan Muna Iloilo coordinator.
“We are nowhere in this investigation. We haven’t heard anything from the PNP since he was killed. I want justice for my father, Mr. Secretary, the same way that you would demand justice when your own father is killed,” Lean said.
Lean noted that his father was “an environmentalist, advocating for ecological sustainability in Panay island” and had organized the Mdya-as Ecological Movement in the early 2000s.
“In his many years of activism, I am sure his track record speaks volume of social and political exposure against state agencies that led to many time he was red-tagged by the military and the police,”the son said.
Jory died on April 30, 2020 when unidentified assailants barged into his rented cottage in Iloilo City and fired shots at him.
“Days before his assassination, the local PNP has made pronouncements over the radio that he is being placed under surveillance. Just so you know Mr. Secretary, he organized community kitchens in the different communities in Iloilo City, a response to the government’s call of ‘Bayanihan’. But the PNP Iloilo City seems to be unhappy about this that they started looking for him. A week after this incident, he was killed at around 5 o’clock in the morning in his rented cottage in Arevalo, Iloilo City,” Lean revealed.
Source: Latest Politics News Today (Politics.com.ph)
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