He was an alumnus of Escuela Nautica de Manila, now known as the Philippine Merchant Marine Academy (PMMA).
[1][2] He was employed in the Comandancia de Marina in Manila as oficial segundo, which is a senior position for a clerk.
[13][14] While he was a member of the Supreme council, Basa published the paper/leaflet "Kalayaan" wherein he enumerated the "Rights of Man", the principles that inspired the French Revolution.
[13] According to an account by Tomas Remigio, he and Basa were among Bonifacio's critics who were sentenced to death by the Katipunan Secret Chamber.
Basa was also mentioned as one of those supposedly removed or expelled by the Supreme Assembly from the Katipunan in a meeting held on Nov.
[18] After being convicted by a Spanish military court, he was executed by musketry on February 6, 1897, along with Apolonio de la Cruz, Teodoro Plata, Vicente Molina, Hermenegildo de los Reyes, José Trinidad, Pedro Nicodemus, Feliciano del Rosario, Gervasio Samson and Doroteo Domínguez.