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Monday, May 6, 2019
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Duterte, Arroyo pay last respects to Nograles
BYJOCELYI{ iIO TEi|AYOR
and WEI{DELL VIGIIA
IRESIDENT Duterte condoled
vith the famil, y of rhe late Speaker
Lnd political tiwl Prospero'Boy''
,{ograles vho passed away Sat-
uday.
"I v/ould lke to ext€nd my deep
ympathies and gondolences to t}re
'amily of Fotmer House Speaker
)tospero Nograles. I am deeply
addened to hear his demise," the
ttesident said in a statement issued
ate Saturday night.
Duterte said Nograles' legacy
"who used his voice to
s a leader
peak on behalf of the Filipioo
reople" will live on and inspire
rther politicians and leaders espe-
ially those who are committed to
erving their count;'rnen.
"May he {ind eternal peace and
epose in t1-re arms of ow loving
rather in heaven. It is also my
,tayer that the Lord
Almighty ease
our pain and that you $/iU 6nd
olace and strength duting this
if6ctdt time," he added.
Cabioet Secreary Karlo Nogales
aid the late Speaker, his fathet,
passed away peacefi.rlly, surround-
d by his farnily'? at the age of 77.
PBA party-list Rep. Jericho
Nograles said the former speaker
. "succumbed to respitatory failwe,
secondaty to pneumonia."
The wake of, the late Speaker
was leld at the Heritage Park in
Fotth Bonifacio in Taguig from
May 5 to 6. His remains v'ill be
flown to Davao on Mdy 7.
The late Nograles was a lawyet
who graduated from the Ateneo
School of Law and placed second
in the 1971 Bar examinations.
As a lawyet, he teptesented
victims of human tights viola-
tions during the tetm of Ptesident
Ferdinand Matcos, and later joined
the campaign of the late President
Corazon Aquino in the 1986 soap
elections.
He served his first term as rep
resentative of the First District
of Davao City in 1989, a post he
again won in 1995 and held for
three consecutive terirrs from 2001
to 20'lO.
Secretary Nogareles described
his father as a "driven public
servant vrho loved his family and
faithfully served his constituents,"
He said his father dedicated
his 15 years in public service-
punctuated by his election as the
6rct House Speaker from Mind-
anao-to the upJifting the welfare
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of Dabawenyos and the people of
Mindanao,
Speaket Glotia Arroyo yesterday
paid her last respects to Nograles,
saying it was an honor that he
served as the leadet of the House
of Representativls during her
.I
esloency.
presidency. :
"It was my honor that he was
mv hooor
Speaker of the Housd of Repre-
sentatives from 2008 t9 2010 L0 dur-
ino my
ing nresidencw"' slid
mv presidency, Ar
s'::id Arroyo,
who vrimessed the consressional
congressional
honor guards drape the Philippine
flag on Nogtales's casket yester-
day morning at the Chapel 1 of
Heritage Patk, Fort Bonifacio in
Taguig City.
Arroyo s4id Nograles vas much-
loved, "not only by his fellow con-
gressmen but, iust as impoftant,
by the staff of the House whose
welfare he cared so much about."
"We will miss him," she said.
"We mourn the passing of forme r
SpeaLer Prospero 'Boy' Nograle s The House rvill hold a requiem of Davao City. 196'l frcm dre Ateneo de Manila
and offer our deepest condolences mass and necrological sewice fot Before he replaced ttren speaker University.
to his loved ones and constituents- the former speaker from 9 a,m. Jose De Venevia, Nograles was the He then pursued and finished his
A bar topnotcher, he served for a to 12 noon tomollow befote his majority leader. Bachelor of Lavrs degree from the
long time in Congress." remains ate flown to Davao. Born on October 30, 1947 it Ateneo Law School in 1971.
The formet president also re- Nograles was elected Speaker of Davao City, he finished his primary Nograles was elected to five
called that Nograles helped her in the 14th Congress on February 5, and secondary education at the terms as Membetof tlle House of
Congress when she was still trade 2008 when served his fifth term as Ateneo de Davao. He obtained Representatives, which spanned a
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undersecretary in the late 1980s. tepresentative of the 6rst district his Bachelor of Arts degree in' total of 15 years.
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