By FRANCO G. REGALA
November 15, 2012, 6:59pm
BACOLOR, Pampanga — Local government executives in Pampanga began mobilizing yesterday to help raise the P44-million “blood money†to spare the life of condemned overseas Filipino worker (OFW) in Saudi Arabia, Joselito Zapanta, who is a native of Bacolor, Pampanga.
Pampanga Governor Lilia “Nanay†G. Pineda said she and the Pampanga Mayors’ League (PML) have agreed to help raise the needed amount as damages to the family of a Sudanese landlord whom Zapanta had killed in 2008 in Saudi Arabia.
Pineda made the announcement as she and several government officials visited the house of Zapanta’s father, Jesus, at Purok 4, Barangay Cabetican, this town last Wednesday.
During the visit, Vice President Jejomar Binay called up Pineda over the phone to inform her about the second postponement of execution of Zapanta, who was apprehended in 2009 and three years later was found guilty by a Saudi Arabia court of killing his Sudanese landlord with hammer during a
dispute over rent.
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