Ex-senator Ziga, 75
Former senator Victor Ziga, who was among the members of the Senate after the EDSA 1986 People Power Revolution, passed away on Sunday. He was 75.
His death was announced by his son Victor Jr. yesterday in a Facebook post.
“It’s never easy to say goodbye to someone you love... I will always look up to you. I may not achieve the things you’ve done as a senator, governor, assemblyman, Cabinet member... But the best is you’re my Papa,” Victor Jr. said.
Ziga was born on Sept. 30, 1945 in Manila to Venancio Ziga, former governor of Albay, and Tecla San Andres, a former senator. He was a graduate of the Ateneo de Manila University, University of Sto. Tomas and University of California in Los Angeles and was admitted to the Bar in 1975.
He ran and won in the 1984 Batasang Pambansa elections. He filed various bills including the establishment of the National Rehabilitation Center for drug addicts, requiring secondary schools to teach drug addiction and abuse and increasing the minimum basic monthly salaries of public school teachers.
In 1986, he was appointed minister of General Services and became a senator and served in the commission on appointments, Senate electoral tribunal and 16 committees. Ziga is married to Carmen Velasco with whom he has five children.
Senators mourned Ziga’s passing and adopted a resolution expressing the Senate’s sympathies to his family.