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Book on late Bohol solon launched on Thursday

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A book about the colorful life of Atty. Erico Boyles Aumentado, former governor and congressman of Bohol, will be launched at the Fortridge Hotel resort in Songkulan, Dauis in Bohol on Thursday.

Cabinet Secretary Leoncio B. Evasco will grace the event as guest of honor and speaker.

The 158-page book, entitled “Erico Boyles Aumentado, a Great Boholano Leader,” is co-authored by veteran journalists Bingo Dejaresco, editor of the Bohol Chronicle, and Ben Cal, former acting executive editor and managing editor of the Philippines News Agency.

Former Presidents Fidel V. Ramos and Gloria Macapagal Arroyo, now a congressman of Pampanga, wrote separate forewords for the book.

Ramos and Arroyo both praised Aumentado for his dedication to public service as board member, governor and lawmaker who also served as Deputy Speaker of the House of Representatives for several years before he passed away on Christmas Day in 2012.

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Aumentado died due to pneumonia with complications of diabetes at the St. Luke’s Medical Center at the Bonifacio Global City in Taguig City.

The book is published by Art Angel Printshop Commercial Quests, Inc. in Quezon City.

Expected to attend the book launching are other congressmen and top public officials from Bohol.

The cover of the book on former Bohol governor and congressman Erico Aumentado, co-written by veteran journalists Bingo Dejaresco and Ben Cal.

Before entering politics in the 1960s, Aumentado was a hard-hitting journalist of the Bohol Chronicle, the province’s pioneering community newspaper, and a news correspondent of The Manila Times for Bohol.

Poverty did not hinder Aumentado’s pursuit of his studies, as he worked his way through college. He was always at the top of his class until he graduated from law school at the Rafael Palma College, now Bohol University, and passed the bar examinations.

As a journalist, Aumentado had a weekly column in the Bohol Chronicle, which he labelled “Between Extremes” that hit hard on corruption in government.

His greatest accomplishments as governor and congressman representing Bohol’s second district were various infrastructure and agricultural projects.

During his term as governor, Aumentado gave Bohol the district honor as the first province in the  country to eradicate the nagging communist insurgency.

Among the bills he authored as congressman were the Limited Portability Scheme (RA 7699), Philippine Health Insurance Corporation Act of 1995 (RA 7875), Agricultural Tarification Act of 1998 (RA 8555), GSIS Act of 1997 (RA 8291), Agricultural and Fisheries Modernization Act of 1998 (RA 8178), Home Guaranty Corporation Action of 2000 (RA 8763) and Fair Election Act (RA 9006).

Despite being busy and workaholic as a congressman and governor whose passion was how to bring about economic development for Bohol in particular and the Philippines in general, Aumentado, a civic leader, was a caring husband to his wife, Grenie, eight children and 21 grandchildren and great grandchildren.

His unfinished vision and mission in life to serve the country is being pursued by his son, Rep. Aris C. Aumentado, who is currently serving his second term in Congress for Bohol’s second district. PNA

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