Foreign Affairs Secretary Teddyboy Locsin Jr. orders Philippine Ambassador to Kuwait to stop the attempt to pay off Php7.5 million blood money for the murder of filipina domestic worker Jeanelyn Villavende.

“The P7.5 million blood money to pay off this horror is changing hands even as I tweet,” Locsin said.

The tweet also came with a photo of Jeanelyn’s remains. Her employer was recently sentenced to death for Villavende’s death.

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Locsin directed Philippine Ambassador to Kuwait Mohd. Noordin Pendosina Lomondot to stop the payment of blood money to Villavende’s family.

“On our part we must match the P7.5 million offer to her surviving kin—NOW!” Locsin added.

He also ordered Lomondot to make sure that the death sentence order will be carried out.

“Lomondot must make sure the court judgment of death is carried out. Malacañang is on to this ignominy. There must be hell to pay if anyone on our side shows ambivalence and a lack of total commitment. This is unforgivable,” he said in another tweet.

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Villavende died in a hospital in Kuwait in December 2019.

Her death prompted the government to impose a deployment ban in Kuwait.

“She’s dead. No one came to rescue when it mattered. Now it is not a matter of rescue but respect for the dead by giving her justice no matter what her surviving kin think of the worth of her agony,” Locsin said. (TDT)