Hayden ‘baptizer’ Afuang spends night at police station

MANILA, Philippines - A former policeman and mayor who “baptized" doctor Hayden Kho Jr. with bottled water at a Senate hearing on the sex video scandal Thursday spent a night in an air-conditioned room at a police station, a report said Friday. Radio dzBB reported that Abner Afuang also went on a hunger strike as his continued protest against Kho’s violation of the rights of actress-model Katrina Irene Pe Halili. The report said Afuang was allowed to stay inside the air-conditioned office of the Pasay City police Criminal Investigation Division (CID). Afuang, tagged by some as "Fr. Afuang" for “baptizing" Kho, faces charges of disturbance of proceedings after disrupting Thursday’s Senate hearing when he poured bottled water on the controversial doctor. He was a former policeman who became mayor of Pagsanjan, Laguna. In 1995, he also caused a scene when he burned the Singaporean flag at the height of rallies to save convicted Filipino Flor Contemplacion from hanging in Singapore. In a series of radio interviews Friday morning, Afuang apologized to the Senate but said he had no regrets doing what he did to Kho. “My apology to the Senate," he said. “If I have to do it again dahil sa kapakanan ng sambayanang Pilipino, nariyan ang Afuang [If I had to do it again, I’ll do it for the country]," he said in an interview on dzBB radio. He added that while he had no intention to show disrespect to the Senate, he felt a surge of emotion when he took his seat at the Senate hearing. Afuang insisted he did not plan on watching the proceedings, saying he had business elsewhere in the Senate building. But he said that when a waiter brought him a bottle of water, “nagdilim ang paningin ko, galit ako sa mga walang hiya [everything went dark for me, I really hate jerks)." He also said he was mad at Kho because his only daughter, who he said is a nursing student in the United States, looked like Halili. Afuang said he plans to stage a hunger strike. An earlier report by dzBB’s Louie Garcia said Afuang refused to touch the food brought by visitors while he was detained at the police station. “Sanay na ako di kumain, para sa bayan [I’m used to not eating. This is for the country]," he said. - GMANews.TV