Atty. Joey Lina
Victor Ziga, John Osmeña, and Dante Jimenez were truly great men in their own right. When I learned last week that they had passed away one after the other, I knew our country had lost outstanding Filipinos whose legacy of public service was indeed remarkable.
All three were dear to me as they touched my life one way or the other. Ziga and Osmeña were my former colleagues in the Senate during the late 1980s and early 1990s. Jimenez, as we all know, was a prominent anti-crime advocate, apparently the nation’s staunchest crusader against high crimes and corruption.
PASAY CITY, Feb. 2 — The Senate adopted a resolution expressing its profound sympathy and sincere condolences to the family of former Sen. Victor Ziga who passed away last January 31, 2021 at the age of 75.Senate Resolution No. (SRN) 630, introduced by Senate President Vicente C. Sotto III and.
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Senate adopts resolution expressing condolences to the family of former Sen. Ziga
The Senate adopted a resolution expressing its profound sympathy and sincere condolences to the family of former Sen. Victor Ziga who passed away last January 31, 2021 at the age of 75.
Senate Resolution No. (SRN) 630, introduced by Senate President Vicente C. Sotto III and Majority Leader Juan Miguel Migz F. Zubiri, was adopted during the hybrid plenary session Monday, February 1, 2021. We will miss him but his memory and his legacy will always remain in the halls of the Philippine Senate, said Sotto.
Zubiri said Ziga was instrumental in the passage of important measures such as Republic Act (RA) 6728, or GATSPE, which provides government assistance to students and teachers in private educational institutions; RA 6948, which standardizes and upgrades the benefits of military veterans and their dependents; RA 6957, or the Build-Operate-Transfer Law ; RA 7160, or the Local Governm