Leni Robredo thanks PNoy for helping province, family

MANILA, Philippines - Camarines Sur Rep. Leni Robredo on Tuesday thanked President Benigno Aquino III and his Cabinet for helping her province and her family.

In her speech during the Jesse Robredo Day Multi-sectoral forum in Naga City, Robredo enumerated the government projects in her home province that were implemented under Aquino's watch.

"Hayaan po ninyong ipaabot ko nang personal ang amin pong pasasalamat sa ating mahal na pangulo at sa kanyang buong gabinete para sa kanilang labis na pag-asikaso sa atin," Robredo told Aquino.

Robredo also thanked the president and his Cabinet for comforting them after his husband died in a plane crash in 2012.

"Hindi po ninyo kami pinabayaan sa gitna ng aming mga pangangailangan," she said. "Sariwa pa po sa akin at sa aming pamilya ang pagkalingang ibinigay ninyo mula sa araw ng pagpanaw ni Jesse."

"Sa panahong nasa bingit kami ng kalungkutan at pagkabalisa dahil sa pangungulila, niyakap ninyo kami at inantabayanan at hindi kailan man iniwan," she added.

Aquino, Robredo and some Cabinet members visited the tomb of the late interior and local government secretary this morning to commemorate his third death anniversary.

Robredo thanked Aquino and his Cabinet members for treating his late husband more than a colleague during his term as an interior secretary.