The labor group Partido Manggagawa (PM)
condemned the killing of the vice chairperson of its Cavite chapter. The group
called on the authorities to investigate and solve the killing.
Dennis Sequena was shot and killed earlier
today in Brgy. Bunga, Tanza, Cavite while meeting a group of workers. He was
shot by a gunman who arrived riding in tandem on a motorcycle. The gunman and
his accomplice escaped using the same motorcycle. Sequena was brought by his PM
colleagues to the General Trias Maternity and Pediatric Hospital but doctors
failed to revive him.
“We call on the police to act with
dispatch and catch the perpetrators of the crime. Dennis is a community leader
and has no personal enemies. We believe this is an extra-judicial killing for
Dennis’ work as a labor organizer,” stated Rene Magtubo, PM national chair.
Sequena was a union organizer and partylist
nominee of the group in the just concluded elections. He was active in
assisting Cavite workers facing labor problems and advising workers who are
unionizing as a means to improve wages and working conditions.
Magtubo also called on Congress to
launch a congressional investigation on the extra-judicial killing of labor
organizers and union activists.
June 2, 2019
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