(Eagle News) — The Senate has allowed former Customs chief Nicanor Faeldon to temporarily leave his detention cell to take his oath of office as deputy administrator of the Office of Civil Defense in Camp Aguinaldo, Quezon City.
According to Senate Sgt. at Arms, Retired General Jose Balajadia, Faeldon was allowed by Senate Blue Ribbon Committee chairperson Senator Richard Gordon to leave his detention cell from 7 a.m. to 9:30 Tuesday morning, January 16, to go the OCD’s office in Camp Aguinaldo.
Faeldon took his oath before Defense Secretary Delfin Lorenzana.
Last Friday, Faeldon was also allowed to leave his cell to visit his wife who gave birth in a hospital in Taytay, Rizal.
As of this time, Faeldon has returned to the Senate premises.
Faeldon was detained last September 2017 for his refusal to testify during the Senate hearing on the P6.4 billion shapu shipment that slipped through the Bureau of Customs at the time that he was the Customs commissioner. He was then cited in contempt and ordered detained until he would agree to testify.
But Faeldon decided that he would rather give his side in court rather than testify in the senate hearing.
On December 22 last year, President Rodrigo Duterte appointed Faeldon as Deputy Administrator III of the Office of Civil Defense to replace Rodolfo Santillan.
(Meanne Corvera, Eagle News Service)
