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Jesse Manalastas Robredo (May 27, 1958 – August 18, 2012)
was the Secretary of the Interior and Local Government of the Philippines.
Robredo was a member of the Liberal Party.
On July 9, 2010, President Benigno Aquino III named Robredo
as Secretary of the Interior and Local Government. Robredo was formerly the
Mayor of Naga City in Camarines Sur. He was also the first Filipino mayor to
receive the Ramon Magsaysay Award for Government Service in 2000.
On August 18, 2012 (PHT), the aircraft carrying Secretary
Robredo crashed off the shore ofMasbate City. He was scheduled to go home and
watch her daughter's swimming competition in Naga City. The Philippine
Department of Interior and Local Government said that the pilot sent a distress
call to the Masbate airport requesting an emergency landing. The plane never
made it to the airport and crashed in the ocean. His body was retrieved three
days later, August 21, 180 feet below sea level.
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