Former Senator Joker Arroyo passes away

**Monseratto** · October 7th, 2015 10:57 AM

By Coconuts Manila October 7, 2015 / 08:31 PHT

"Filipino statesman Joker Paz Arroyo died on October 5, 2015 in a still undisclosed hospital in the United States. He was 88," reports Manila Bulletin Online.

The report recalled that "Arroyo was a key figure in the 1986 EDSA People Power Revolution and was congressman of Makati City for nine years and a member of the Senate for 12 years."

Sources say that details of his death will be announced at a later time.

Former Senator Joker Arroyo passes away | Coconuts Manila

**macsd** · October 7th, 2015 11:22 AM

May he rest in peace

**170kphlang** · October 7th, 2015 02:00 PM

r.i.p. but unfortunately hindi niya pinanindigan ang slogan niyang "kapag bad ka lagot ka!"

**Juan Martinez** · October 7th, 2015 02:10 PM

^ let him be. patay na yung. requiscat in pace.

**psych_114** · October 7th, 2015 04:10 PM

Donna eis requiem

**StockEngine** · October 7th, 2015 04:14 PM

Flavier then Arroyo

Rest in Peace...

**StockEngine** · October 7th, 2015 04:14 PM

Flavier then Arroyo

Rest in Peace...

**kisshmet** · October 7th, 2015 04:43 PM

let the Lords judgement befall upon his soul

**NightRock** · October 7th, 2015 06:50 PM

Di ko ma lilimutan yang ng na katabi ko sa flight from Singapore to Manila mga 20 years ago.. simpleng tao lang naka Economy class lang kami non, dami nya binabasa books then nag start makipag conversation sakin. Hindi ko actually kilala sya non then ng sinabi nya name ng mayor samin. Tinanong ko bakit nga kilala sabi nya Politican daw sya.. saka ko lang nalaman Joker Arroyo pala.

**Juan Martinez** · October 7th, 2015 09:12 PM

Senate Pro-Tempore Ralph Recto
Fellow member of the Senate’s Wednesday Club:

Joker earned sobriquets in his storied life. The Great Dissenter. The Maverick. The Defender. He was even called The Scrooge for his economical use of office funds.

But there was one area he didn’t scrimp on. And that was offering his sharp legal mind, for free, to those who need it most but can afford it least. If he had a good heart, it was because his favorite form of exercise was to bend down and pull someone out of the gutter.

Which he did when he was still Citizen Joker. When he arrived at the Senate, he already had a life’s worth of achievements, great victories he won without wearing the mantle of parliamentary immunity. This country owes much of its freedom to him, as do hundreds whose liberty he secured.

Joker was an incorrigible fiscalizer. He loved to tilt the windmills and tussle with the powerful. He was a solitary gunfighter, drawing strength from the righteousness of his crusade, never taking comfort in the number of people who share his belief.