The leadership of the House of Representatives led by Speaker Ferdinand Martin G. Romualdez on Saturday condoled with Lanao del Sur Rep. Zia Alonto Adiong, Lanao del Sur Gov. Mamintal Alonto Adiong Jr., and the entire Adiong family on the death of former Gov. Soraya Alonto Adiong.
The head of the 307-strong House expressed his and the chamber’s “deepest condolences” to the Adiongs on the passing of the former Lanao del Sur governor.
He said the late former governor’s “hands-on leadership bridged the gap between the provincial government and the people it served.”
The Philippine flag and the Bangsamoro Banner were raised half mast midday Friday in Lanao. Alonto-Adiong, who died of lingering illness on Friday, was the governor Lanao del Sur during the entire five-month that Marawi City was under siege of terrorism, against which the national government had responded with ground military offensives and airstrikes.
On the first Eid ul Fitr prayer after the siege, the governor was visibly emotional on seeing the ruins of war in the city’s Banggolo District. Hadja Bedjoria Malawani Alonto Adiong hailed from a family of leaders: Her grandfather Sultan Alawiya Alonto served as a senator both of the Commonwealth
Government and in the first congressional term of the Philippine Republic. Her father was governor of the Undivided Lanao in the 1950s, and was elected senator in 1954.
