Detained fertilizer fund probe ?witness? Jaime Paule yesterday said he will ?repair and renovate at my own expense? Pasay City Jail?s toilets, after being moved to his cell and experienced firsthand the life of an ordinary inmate.

Ordered arrested and jailed by the Senate Blue Ribbon committee for alleged lying under oath, Paule is a practising engineer, who owns Jems Peak Corp., a construction firm that is an accredited government contractor.

He was brought to Pasay jail after being discharged Thursday night from St. Luke?s Medical Center in Quezon City, by the Senate sergeant at arms.

Jail warden Wenefredo Aldo said Paule was treated at the infirmary around noon on Friday, complaining of chest pains, before being placed temporarily in an isolation room for arriving inmates.

Although suffering from a partially blocked carotid artery, asthma and high blood pressure, Paule?s lawyer Ferdinand Topacio did not ask for ?special treatment? for his client, who had to share a cell with other inmates, thus giving him an opportunity to see how ?inadequate? the washrooms were.

?I felt pity for the inmates in the Pasay City Jail because most of them are good people who, like me, were merely victims of oppression, so I promised that once I got out, I would repair and renovate their bathroom facilities at my expense,? he said in Filipino.

Paule?s arrest order issued by the Senate is the subject of a habeas corpus petition before the Supreme Court.