{"id":142243,"date":"2017-12-27T03:58:09","date_gmt":"2017-12-27T08:58:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=142243"},"modified":"2017-12-27T03:58:09","modified_gmt":"2017-12-27T08:58:09","slug":"duterte-assigns-faeldon-to-office-of-civil-defense","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2017\/12\/27\/duterte-assigns-faeldon-to-office-of-civil-defense\/","title":{"rendered":"Duterte assigns Faeldon to Office of Civil Defense"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure id=\"attachment_112264\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-112264\" style=\"width: 901px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Bureau_of_Customs_BOC_Commissioner_Nicanor_Faeldon_cropped-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-112264\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Bureau_of_Customs_BOC_Commissioner_Nicanor_Faeldon_cropped-2.jpg\" alt=\"FILE PHOTO\/ Bureau of Customs (BOC) Commissioner Nicanor Faeldon (Photo by Presidential Communications Operations Office - Presidential Communications Operations Office (Immediate: [1]), Public Domain)\" width=\"901\" height=\"1242\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Bureau_of_Customs_BOC_Commissioner_Nicanor_Faeldon_cropped-2.jpg 901w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Bureau_of_Customs_BOC_Commissioner_Nicanor_Faeldon_cropped-2-218x300.jpg 218w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Bureau_of_Customs_BOC_Commissioner_Nicanor_Faeldon_cropped-2-768x1059.jpg 768w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Bureau_of_Customs_BOC_Commissioner_Nicanor_Faeldon_cropped-2-743x1024.jpg 743w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 901px) 100vw, 901px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-112264\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">FILE PHOTO\/ Bureau of Customs (BOC) Commissioner Nicanor Faeldon <a href=\"https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/w\/index.php?curid=50829845\">(Photo by Presidential Communications Operations Office &#8211; Presidential Communications Operations Office (Immediate: [1]), Public Domain)<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>President Rodrigo Duterte has appointed former Bureau of Customs (BOC) Commissioner Nicanor Faeldon to the Office of Civil Defense (OCD), disaster-response agnecy under the Department of National Defense (DND).<\/p>\n<p>Faeldon was appointed as a deputy administrator of the OCD, replacing Rodolfo Santillan. His appointment letter was dated December 22.<\/p>\n<p>The ex-commissioner left his post after being involved in the smuggling of P6.4-billion worth of shabu shipment from China that slipped past the bureau.<\/p>\n<p>In August, Duterte said that he had accepted Faeldon\u2019s resignation after his name was dragged to the smuggling case in the BOC.<\/p>\n<p>Upon accepting his resignation, the President said,&#8221;From the tone of his resignation, he&#8217;s very disappointed but I really believe he is an honest man.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Duterte later announced that former Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) chief Isidro Lape\u00f1a will take over the reins from Faeldon as the new Customs commissioner.<\/p>\n<p>The Chief Executive said he would give the ex-commissioner another post, citing that he has no reason to doubt the \u201cgovernment would need Faeldon.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The former commissioner is currently detained at the Senate after he refused to make an appearance at the chamber\u2019s hearings on the drug smuggling allegations.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Rodrigo Duterte has appointed former Bureau of Customs (BOC) Commissioner Nicanor Faeldon to the Office of Civil Defense (OCD), &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":112264,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1482,1145,16,95],"tags":[3413,40709,40708,21674,18522,13135],"class_list":["post-142243","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking","category-headline","category-news","category-news-ph","tag-department-of-national-defense","tag-deputy-administrator","tag-drug-smuggling-allegations","tag-nicanor-faeldon","tag-office-of-civil-defense","tag-president-rodrigo-duterte","mauthors-joanna-belle-deala","mauthors-philippine-canadian-inquirer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142243","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=142243"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142243\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/112264"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=142243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=142243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=142243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}