Senators pay tribute to Nene Pimentel

Credit to Author: Tempo Desk| Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2019 11:07:45 +0000

PRESIDENT Duterte pays his last respects to the late former Senate President Aquilino Pimentel Jr. as he visits the wake at the Heritage Memorial Park in Taguig City. (Presidential photo)

Senate President Vicente C. Sotto III yesterday led the 24-member Senate in honoring the life and accomplishments of the late Senate President Aquilino “Nene” Q. Pimentel Jr., a legend and a statesman.

Pimentel, 85, a Bar topnotcher, is known for being the father of the Local Government Code of 1991 and the Organic Act of the Autonomous Region of Muslim Mindanao, among others.

He succumbed to pneumonia and lymphoma complications in the early morning of Oct. 20 at the age of 85.

Pimentel’s remains were brought to the Senate yesterday morning for the traditional necrological rites given in honor of former members of the Senate who have passed away. His remains were flown to Cagayan de Oro City yesterday afternoon and would be brought back to Manila tomorrow.

The Philippine flag flew at half-mast.

Sotto presented the family of the late Senate President a resolution expressing the Senate’s “profound sympathy and sincere condolences” which was authored by all of the members of the 18th Congress of the Senate.

Senate Resolution 168 was received by his son and namesake, Sen. Aquilino “Koko” Pimentel III, on behalf of his mother, Lourdes or “Nanay Bing,” and sisters Human Rights Commissioner Gwendo
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