"I just want my husband back."

This was the plea of Violet, wife of Rodolfo Noel Lozada Jr., a key resource person in the Senate investigation into the scrapped national broadband network deal.

In an interview with radio dzMM, Violet pleaded to those who have his husband to bring him back to his family.

"Please ibalik n'yo na asawa ko. Kung nakanino man siya. Ibalik nila asawa ko (Please return my husband, whoever is holding him now)," she said between sobs during the interview.

Violet said she has no idea who might have taken his husband.

Meanwhile, opposition Sen. Benigno "Noynoy" Aquino III, a member of the Blue Ribbon Committee investigating the anomalous NBN-ZTE contract, said they will do everything to get to bottom of Lozada's disappearance after arriving at 4:40 p.m. from Hong Kong.

Aquino said Lozada's testimony before the hearing is "very vital."

Meanwhile, Carmen, Lozada's sister, has appealed to members of religious organizations to help the family find his brother.

Interviewed earlier by radio dzMM, Carmen said Lozada called from the airport that he was going home to his family.

"Siya ay hindi tumatakbo, hindi pwedeng mag-stay kung saan-saan si Jun (Rodolfo) dahil Pilipinas ang bayan niya...Sinabi niya na uuwi siya ngayon for the family," said Carmen.

(He's not running, Jun cannot stay anywhere because his country is the Philippines… He said he's going home to his family.)

Carmen said that she and her other siblings went to the Ninoy Aquino International Airport supposedly to meet Lozada during his arrival.

Carmen said she preferred that Lozada be under the custody of the Senate.
"I'd rather that he go to the Senate, 'yon ang may summon sa kanya 'di ba (it's the one who has summons for him)," said Carmen.

She said Lozada feared for his family.

"Natatakot s'ya [para] sa kanyang pamilya...Pinapasa-Diyos na niya ang buhay niya," said Carmen.

(He fears for his family… He's leaving his life in God's hands.)

Lozada arrived Tuesday afternoon at the NAIA but has gone missing as members of the Senate Sergeant-at-Arms office waited to serve an arrest warrant on him.

Lozada is the chief executive officer of the government-run Philippine Forest Corp.
Lozada was reported to have been met by NAIA assistant general manager Octavio Lina following his arrival from Hong Kong.

He remains unaccounted for.

Media men and members of the Senate's Sergeant-at-Arms office were only given access to the airport's arrival area. They were unable to see where Lozada went and who he was with.

NAIA officials reportedly refused to comment on the incident.

Lozada left the country hours before a Senate hearing last January 30 on the NBN deal.

Lozada was Sen. Panfilo Lacson's supposed new witness for the NBN deal hearing. The senator said Lozada knows details about irregularities in the NBN deal.