BOCAUE MAYOR. Mayor Joni Villanueva-Tugna died on May 28, 2020. Photo from the official Facebook page of Mayor Joni Villanueva-Tugna
The executive management board of the Jesus is Lord Church Worldwide, where Villanueva served as executive director, made the announcement on the official JIL Facebook page late Thursday night.Tugna is the daughter of CIBAC Representative Eddie Villanueva, the JIL founder. Her brother, Joel, is a senator, while her husband, Sherwin Tugna, is a former congressman.The JIL board described Tugna as “an exemplary leader, a pioneer, a trailblazer, and woman of vision and action.
“As mayor of Bocaue, Bulacan, she was also a pioneer and trailblazer: innovative in her methods and humane in her actions. In fact, even as she was sick, she was working and serving and caring for her constituents – involved even in the packing and distribution of relief goods until her body stopped her to do so,” the JIL board added.
During the coronavirus lockdown, Tugna received praised for buying vegetables from Cordillera farmers for distribution to her constituents, after she learned that the farmers had problems selling their goods because of quarantine rules."Today Bocaue lost its finest public servant. Mayor Joni was relentlessly serving Bocaueños during this lockdown despite her medical condition, which eventually [cost her] her life.
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