MANILA, (PIA) — President Bongbong Marcos revealed that the Philippine government had been actively negotiating for years in an effort to save an overseas Filipino worker (OFW) who was executed for murder in Saudi Arabia last week.
In a statement released by the Presidential Communications Office (PCO) on Tuesday, Marcos reflected on the prolonged efforts, stating, “I remember, mga 5, 6 years din. I came upon it when I came into office and they told me it’s an old… And as I said, I guess Saudi tried to exhaust all possibilities. So, did we, but to no avail.”
The Philippine government consistently provided support and legal representation to the Filipino worker throughout the legal proceedings, Marcos noted.
The President added that he had personally sent a letter to Saudi King Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud in a last-ditch appeal for the worker’s life.
“Unfortunately, the law there (in Saudi Arabia) is very strict. And apparently the conviction has stood and one of ours has been taken away,” he said during an interview.
Marcos expressed his condolences to the family of the executed worker. (JCO/PIA-NCR)
