Former Lamitan mayor Rosita “Rose” Furigay was among at least three persons killed in a shooting incident inside Ateneo de Manila University in Quezon City on Sunday, July 24. Who is Rosita Furigay? Here are some things to know.
three persons killed in a shooting incidentFurigay was supposed to attend the Ateneo Law School graduation ceremony of her daughter, Hannah Furigay. The ex-mayor’s security detail Victor George Capistrano, and Ateneo security guard Jeneven Bandiala were killed in the incident, while Hannah was wounded and rushed to the Quirino Memorial Medical Center in Quezon City.
In 2007, former Basilan representative Wahab Akbar was killed in a bombing incident as he walked out of a lobby at the House of Representatives. Furigay is the second Basilan leader to be killed in Quezon City.Furigay hails from a political clan in Lamitan, Basilan. Rosita, or Rose, won her third term as mayor of Lamitan in 2019, while her husband Roderick served as her vice mayor. The couple won unopposed.
Roderick was the city’s first mayor. He served three full consecutive terms from 2004 to 2013, and was succeeded by Rosita, who served until 2022. Roderick again assumed the position in the last May 2022 elections.Before joining politics, she managed her own business and graduated cum laude with a degree in pharmacy from San Carlos University in Cebu City.
For the Lamiteños, Furigay was regarded as a mother figure with a big heart, especially for the poor.after the shooting that the Furigay couple were “strong supporters” of the Office of the Vice President’s Angat Buhay program when Robredo was in office.
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