Confirmation not important to Robredo, says wife

MANILA, Philippines—Interior Secretary Jesse Robredo’s widow, Leni, on Thursday said that her late husband did not seem to view his confirmation as an issue more important than serving the people.

In the first time she faced the media since the body of her husband was found in the waters off Masbate, she said that Robredo prized serving the people more than being granted confirmation as chief of the Department of Interior and Local Government.

She recalled her husband as a family man and not as a DILG chief or mayor of his hometown Naga City whenever he was at home.