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Mocha Uson named Customs 'consultant'

Joel Guinto, ABS-CBN News

<div class="embed-wrap"><figure data-feedback="fb:likes,fb:comments"><img src="http://sa.kapamilya.com/absnews/abscbnnews/media/2016/nation2/08/04/mocha-uson.jpg"/><figcaption><div class="embed-desc" style="text-align:left">Mocha Uson with the Mocha Girls during presidential candidate Rodrigo Duterte&#x27;s miting de avance in Luneta. <i>Fernando G. Sepe Jr., ABS-CBN News</i></div></figcaption></figure></div><h2>But Customs bureau denies Faeldon&#x27;s statement to ABS-CBN</h2><p>MANILA – (2nd UPDATE) Singer and dancer Mocha Uson, one of President Rodrigo Duterte’s fiercest supporters, has been tapped as “social media consultant” at the Bureau of Customs, Commissioner Nicanor Faeldon said Thursday.</p><p>Faeldon, a former military rebel tasked by Duterte to reform one of the most corrupt agencies in the bureaucracy, said he hoped to tap Uson&#x27;s Facebook page, with nearly four million followers, for public information campaigns.</p><p>Uson will not be paid for her services and will not be appointed in an official capacity, Faeldon told ABS-CBN News by phone.</p><p>But a tweet from the Bureau of Customs Twitter account, which was posted around the same time as the telephone interview, said Faeldon &quot;will not appoint Mocha Uson as BOC Social Media Consultant but she can write articles about BOC on her blog.&quot;</p><p>Faeldon was not immediately available for clarification.</p><blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p dir="ltr" lang="en">JUST IN: Comm. Nicanor Faeldon will not appoint Mocha Uson as BOC Social Media Consultant but she can write articles about BOC on her blog.</p>— Bureau of Customs PH (@CustomsPH) <a href="https://twitter.com/CustomsPH/status/761029001208958977">August 4, 2016</a></blockquote><script async="" src="~//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charSet="utf-8" type="text/javascript"></script><p>“We’re looking at the millions of followers she has. We need the support of everyone in our reform agenda,” Faeldon told ABS-CBN News.</p><p>“Her blog is active. I’m sure she can help. Wala siyang bayad. She is willing to help in the name of public service,” he said.</p><p>In a separate text message before the phone interview, Faeldon said Uson &quot;will be BOC social media consultant.&quot;</p><p>Uson runs a Facebook page, which has nearly four million likes, where she regularly engages the President’s supporters, and at one time, interviewed Duterte himself.</p><p>Uson posted an interview with Faeldon on Wednesday, wherein the former Marine discussed his plans to rid the agency of corruption.</p><p>“Kaming mga ka ka DDS mga Die-Hard Duterte Supporters, ipinapangako po namin sa inyo na 100 percent din ang suporta namin sa inyo dahil napakalaki ng inyong resposibilidad,&quot; she told Faeldon.</p>

(2nd UPDATE) Singer and dancer Mocha Uson, one of President Rodrigo Duterte’s fiercest supporters, has been tapped as “social media consultant” at the Bureau of Customs, Commissioner Nicanor Faeldon said Thursday.<br />

(2nd UPDATE) Singer and dancer Mocha Uson, one of President Rodrigo Duterte’s fiercest supporters, has been tapped as “social media consultant” at the Bureau of Customs, Commissioner Nicanor Faeldon said Thursday.

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Mocha Uson named Customs 'consultant'

Joel Guinto,

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Published Aug 04, 2016 09:58 AM PHT

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Updated Aug 04, 2016 01:55 PM PHT

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