As an ex-Marine captain who slept in the jungle rain or shine, former Customs chief Nicanor Faeldon is not complaining about his detention cell at the Senate—in fact, in his own words, it’s lodging “fit for a colonel.”

Faeldon—who chose detention instead of grilling in the Senate Blue Ribbon Committee in protest for being implicated in smuggling and bribery—is in “high spirits” and is re-reading books written by Gandhi, said his lawyer Jose Dino.

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