Faeldon asks SC to free him from Gordon’s ‘bullying’

NICANOR E. FAELDON, a former Bureau of Customs chief and now deputy administrator of the Office of Civil Defense, has filed a motion asking the Supreme Court (SC) to urgently resolve his prior petition for his immediate release, saying that the Jan. 29 hearing at the Senate is a clear example of Senator Richard J. Gordon’s “bullying” and “abuse of power.”

“If there is still any lingering doubt in the minds of the Honorable Justices of [the Supreme Court], that the provisional reliefs prayed for by the Petitioner are absolutely necessary under the premises, then Respondent Sen. Gordon’s latest public display of bullying, pomposity, and utter abuse of power, should be more than enough,” Mr. Faeldon said.

He added that Mr. Gordon also threatened him publicly of a transfer from his detention at the Senate’s Office of the Sergeant-at-Arms (OSAA) to the Pasay City Jail if he would not show up in Monday’s hearing.

Mr. Faeldon recently asked the high tribunal to declare null and void the arrest and detention order issued by the Senate blue ribbon committee, headed by Mr. Gordon, dated Sept. 7, 2017 and to grant his release from the OSAA.

He was cited for contempt by Mr. Gordon for his absence in the Aug. 31, 2017 hearing of the committee in relation to the P6.4-billion illegal drug shabu, which entered the Port of Manila in May last year.

Named as respondents in the SC case are Mr. Gordon, the Senate blue ribbon committee, and Senate Sergeant-at-Arms M/Gen. Jose V. Balajadia Jr. —