Porquia, 58, a founding member and city coordinator of the party list group Bayan Muna, was shot dead inside his rented bamboo house at Barangay Sto. Niño Norte in Arevalo District in Iloilo City past 5 a.m.
“They killed my ‘tatay’ when all he wanted was to help the poor. They killed my tatay in the middle of a crisis when all he did was to give relief to those who need it,” his son, Lean, said in a statement on behalf of his family.
Reports said Porquia was putting on his shoes and was preparing to go to the market at 5:17 a.m. when two men wearing face masks barged in and shot him. Siegfred Deduro, Bayan Muna vice president for the Visayas, said Porquia was leading their organization’s campaign to provide food and other assistance to residents affected by the enhanced quarantine measures in the city.Deduro said Porquia had resisted attempts of the police station in Molo District here to stop the distribution of food packs, an allegation denied by the police.
“Even amid a pandemic, when all of us are trying to help each other cope with the crisis, the killing of activists and those critical of the Duterte administration continues,” he said.
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