{"id":109460,"date":"2017-08-02T05:02:51","date_gmt":"2017-08-02T09:02:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=109460"},"modified":"2017-08-02T05:02:51","modified_gmt":"2017-08-02T09:02:51","slug":"faeldon-no-room-for-politicians-favors-in-boc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2017\/08\/02\/faeldon-no-room-for-politicians-favors-in-boc\/","title":{"rendered":"Faeldon: No room for politicians&#8217; favors in BOC"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_109469\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-109469\" style=\"width: 218px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Bureau_of_Customs_BOC_Commissioner_Nicanor_Faeldon_cropped.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-109469\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Bureau_of_Customs_BOC_Commissioner_Nicanor_Faeldon_cropped-218x300.jpg\" alt=\"Bureau of Customs (BOC) Commissioner Nicanor Faeldon. (Photo by Presidential Communications Operations Office )\" width=\"218\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Bureau_of_Customs_BOC_Commissioner_Nicanor_Faeldon_cropped-218x300.jpg 218w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Bureau_of_Customs_BOC_Commissioner_Nicanor_Faeldon_cropped-768x1059.jpg 768w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Bureau_of_Customs_BOC_Commissioner_Nicanor_Faeldon_cropped-743x1024.jpg 743w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Bureau_of_Customs_BOC_Commissioner_Nicanor_Faeldon_cropped.jpg 901w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 218px) 100vw, 218px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-109469\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><a href=\"https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/w\/index.php?curid=50829845\">Bureau of Customs (BOC) Commissioner Nicanor Faeldon. (Photo by Presidential Communications Operations Office )<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"background: white;margin: 15.0pt 0in 15.0pt 0in\"><span style=\"font-size: 10.5pt;font-family: 'Helvetica','sans-serif';color: black\">MANILA, Aug. 2 &#8212; Bureau of Customs (BOC) Commissioner Nicanor Faeldon on Wednesday vowed to turn down requests from politicians who are using their influence to promote their people, which is a form of corruption.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"background: white;text-align: start;margin: 15.0pt 0in 15.0pt 0in\"><span style=\"font-size: 10.5pt;font-family: 'Helvetica','sans-serif';color: black\">\u201cThey want me to influence the promotion board to get their people promoted. Even that is a form of corruption will be put to nothing. I do not want to do that,\u201d he said in a press conference held a day after his meeting with President Rodrigo Duterte.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"background: white;text-align: start;margin: 15.0pt 0in 15.0pt 0in\"><span style=\"font-size: 10.5pt;font-family: 'Helvetica','sans-serif';color: black\">\u201cI don\u2019t know nothing about the BOC, I only know to say no. Madami tawag but their request is\u2026your request is a form of corruption\u2026\u201d he added.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"background: white;text-align: start;margin: 15.0pt 0in 15.0pt 0in\"><span style=\"font-size: 10.5pt;font-family: 'Helvetica','sans-serif';color: black\">With this, he appealed to these people to stop pressuring the BOC for their self-interest.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"background: white;text-align: start;margin: 15.0pt 0in 15.0pt 0in\"><span style=\"font-size: 10.5pt;font-family: 'Helvetica','sans-serif';color: black\">\u201cMy only qualification I can say no to influence the bureau. I will continue to say no. Please stop it,\u201d the BOC chief said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"background: white;text-align: start;margin: 15.0pt 0in 15.0pt 0in\"><span style=\"font-size: 10.5pt;font-family: 'Helvetica','sans-serif';color: black\">\u201cThis is not your property. This is the Filipino people\u2019s BOC so don\u2019t act you own this,\u201d he further stressed.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"background: white;text-align: start;margin: 15.0pt 0in 15.0pt 0in\"><span style=\"font-size: 10.5pt;font-family: 'Helvetica','sans-serif';color: black\">On the other hand, Faeldon revealed that part of the marching order of the Chief Executive is to get rid of corruption in the bureau.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"background: white;text-align: start;margin: 15.0pt 0in 15.0pt 0in\"><span style=\"font-size: 10.5pt;font-family: 'Helvetica','sans-serif';color: black\">\u201cWalang specific giving marching order about corruption. To stop corruption, any form. We talked other issues,\u201d he added.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"background: white;text-align: start;margin: 15.0pt 0in 15.0pt 0in\"><span style=\"font-size: 10.5pt;font-family: 'Helvetica','sans-serif';color: black\">President Duterte allowed Faeldon to stay as head of the bureau despite its failure to stop the entry of PHP6.4 billion shabu shipment from China.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"background: white;text-align: start;margin: 15.0pt 0in 15.0pt 0in\"><span style=\"font-size: 10.5pt;font-family: 'Helvetica','sans-serif';color: black\">Both houses of Congress have conducted their respective investigations on the matter.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA, Aug. 2 &#8212; Bureau of Customs (BOC) Commissioner Nicanor Faeldon on Wednesday vowed to turn down requests from politicians &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":109469,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1145,16,95],"tags":[4665,3673],"class_list":["post-109460","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headline","category-news","category-news-ph","tag-bureau-of-customs","tag-corruption","mauthors-ferdinand-g-patinio","mauthors-philippine-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109460","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=109460"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109460\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/109469"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109460"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=109460"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=109460"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}