Faeldon accepts firing from Bucor amid GCTA controversy

Sacked Bureau of Corrections (BuCor) director general Nicanor Faeldon on Wednesday said he accepted President Rodrigo Duterte's order "without any hard feelings."

"My commander-in-chief/appointing authority has spoken. I am a marine and a marine does as he is told," Faeldon said in a statement released by his legal team. "I most humbly bow to commander-in-chief's order without any hard feelings," Faeldon said in a statement.

Duterte fired Faeldon on Wednesday evening amid a controversy involving the early release of nearly 2,000 people convicted of and imprisoned for heinous crimes.

Just minutes prior, the president said he was demanding Faeldon's resignation for disobeying his order that no convict should be released until further orders by higher authorities.

But Duterte reportedly sidestepped the question on whether he will appoint Faeldon to another government post.

Faeldon was named Corrections chief in November 2018, replacing then-director general Ronald dela Rosa, who is now senator.

Before heading the BuCor, Faeldon served as deputy administrator of the Office of Civil Defense, a post he got appointed to months after he resigned from the Bureau of Customs following the controversy surrounding the smuggling of billions of pesos worth of shabu from China.

The BuCor position was his third public post under the Duterte administration. —NB, GMA News