Jakatia Pawa's execution is a surprise not just for her family, but also to the government for having limited hours to do last- minute measures to save her life.
The family of the Filipina domestic helper was just informed by Jakatia herself via phone call few hours before her death.
A mother of two, Jakatia was executed on January 25, 2017 for killing his employer's daughter.
OFW rights advocate Susan Ople criticized how the Department of Foreign Affairs was caught off guard of the execution and moreso, failed to prepare her family for the said execution.
"Why was no one from the regional office of the DFA, yesterday as well, who visited her family and prepared them for it?" Ople asked.
Unlike previous cases of OFW being executed abroad, Jakatia's death surprised everyone, even her own family who were not given ample time to prepare.
Previous death row cases had issued execution schedules days before the execution proper.
Lieutenant Colonel Angaris Pawa, her brother, said that his family got shocked and devastated after learning the execution at 5 am, the same day.
On the other hand, the Philippine Embassy in Kuwait was told about it by prison authorities just the day before it was conducted, DFA spokesman Charles Jose said in a press briefing.
Jose added that the time the embassy was informed, Pawa was also given a cellphone to call her family.
Kuwait and Philippines have 5-hour time gap that when Pawa called her family at midnight in Kuwait for her execution early morning, her family received the call on early dawn in the Philippines.
"Tumawag kapatid ko kanina, around 5 o' clock in the morning. Kasi nga nabigla ako kanina sa pagtawag niya, kasi umiiyak. Sabi niya, 'Kuya, bukas, bibitayin na kami,'" Angaris narrated.
Angaris added that his family wished that they should've been informed with what her sister may have or may have not faced two to three days before.
Jose added that DFA and the Philippine Embassy have done everything up to the last minute to save Pawa's life.
Source: Rappler
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