PRESIDENT Benigno S. Aquino III yesterday bared that he lost his trust and confidence in  former National Bureau of Investigation (NBI)  Director Magtanggol Gatdula.

In defending Gatdula’s ouster, Aquino told Palace reporters the former defied an instruction to have Japanese national Noriyo Ohara turned over to the Bureau of Immigration for being an undocumented alien.

Aquino said the defiance is tantamount to insubordination, which eventually led to a loss of the President’s trust and confidence in Gatdula.

“May orders to transfer the person to the Bureau of Immigration that was not carried out. That to me is insubordination. Ngayon, at the end of the day, the head of the principal agencies will be a person who has our trust and confidence. The trust is no longer there,” Aquino told Palace reporters.

Aquino slammed  the claim of Gatdula’s lawyer that his client was denied due process.

“Preliminary investigation has already been completed. Ang punto po nito, doon sa investigation na ginawa, there (were) several occasions that he was informed either by the media or the Secretary of Justice herself and others of the... question of Ohara being detained at the NBI. ’Yung she’s a foreigner,’ no para bang kung ang main issue muna ay illegal entry then...the proper venue, the Bureau of Immigration,” Aquino said.

Aquino said Justice Secretary Leila de Lima  will designate Gatdula’s replacement shortly. 
Efren Montano