{"id":142395,"date":"2017-12-28T03:32:42","date_gmt":"2017-12-28T08:32:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=142395"},"modified":"2017-12-28T03:32:42","modified_gmt":"2017-12-28T08:32:42","slug":"ejercito-criticizes-faeldons-appointment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2017\/12\/28\/ejercito-criticizes-faeldons-appointment\/","title":{"rendered":"Ejercito criticizes Faeldon&#8217;s appointment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_134876\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-134876\" style=\"width: 960px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/joseph-victor-ejercito.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-134876\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/joseph-victor-ejercito.jpg\" alt=\"\u201cBut personally, I would rather that appointees or those who intend to run for public office does not have any derogatory record or blemish in their track record because they are entering public service,\u201d  Senator Joseph Victor Ejercito said. (Photo: JV Ejercito\/Facebook)\" width=\"960\" height=\"720\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/joseph-victor-ejercito.jpg 960w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/joseph-victor-ejercito-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/joseph-victor-ejercito-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/joseph-victor-ejercito-20x15.jpg 20w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-134876\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">\u201cBut personally, I would rather that appointees or those who intend to run for public office does not have any derogatory record or blemish in their track record because they are entering public service,\u201d Senator Joseph Victor Ejercito said.<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/SenJVEjercito\/photos\/a.678462485497102.1073741906.162414077101948\/1784358871574119\/?type=3&amp;amp;theater\"> (Photo:<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/SenJVEjercito\/\">JV Ejercito\/Facebook)<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>President Rodrigo Duterte\u2019s recent appointment of ex-Bureau of Customs (BOC) chief Nicanor Faeldon as deputy administrator of the Department of National Defense&#8217;s (DND) Office of Civil Defense gained criticisms, one from Senator JV Ejercito who said that someone who has a clean record would have been more deserving of the post.<\/p>\n<p>Although Ejercito respects the president\u2019s decision, the senator said he thinks it is best that those whose slate are untainted are appointed to public office because in this industry \u201cpublic service is a public trust.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s the prerogative of the President to appoint who he has trust and confidence,\u201d Ejercito said in a text message to the media.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut personally, I would rather that appointees or those who intend to run for public office does not have any derogatory record or blemish in their track record because they are entering public service,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>Faeldon is currently detained at the Senate after he was cited in contempt for not attending hearings on the BOC drug-smuggling probe.<\/p>\n<p>In spite of this, Duterte signed Faeldon\u2019s appointment papers on December 22 which was released by Malaca\u00f1ang on December 27.<\/p>\n<p><strong>(DAILY NEWS ROUND UP FOR 12\/\u00a028 \/ 17)<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; President Rodrigo Duterte\u2019s recent appointment of ex-Bureau of Customs (BOC) chief Nicanor Faeldon as deputy administrator of the &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":134876,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-142395","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-uncategorized","mauthors-ro-angelica-equio","mauthors-philippine-canadian-inquirer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142395","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=142395"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142395\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/134876"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=142395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=142395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=142395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}