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No sign of Quiboloy on 14th day of search; Senate hearing to look into ops

No sign of Quiboloy on 14th day of search; Senate hearing to look into ops

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Updated Sep 06, 2024 10:37 AM PHT

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Pastor Apollo Quiboloy, leader of religious sect Kingdom of Jesus Christ, leads prayers at a miting de avance on May 7, 2016. Fernando G. Sepe, Jr., ABS-CBN News/File  

Authorities have yet to find fugitive pastor Apollo Quiboloy on Friday, as the search for him at the Kingdom of Jesus Christ (KOJC) compound in Davao City marked its second week. 

A Senate hearing and ocular inspection led by Sen. Ronald Dela Rosa, chairman of the Senate Committee on Justice and Human Rights, will look into the police operations at 10 a.m.

The KOJC claimed that police operations at its 30-hectare compound affected the group's academic rights and religious freedom. 

The group added that its members were supposedly being prevented from going to some areas like their cathedral and basement, where an alleged excavation was ongoing.

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Davao Region police chief BGen. Nicolas Torre III said authorities welcomed the Senate investigation. Police are willing to share their discoveries during the operations, he said.

Torre said he believed that their operations would continue after the Senate hearing.

"Hindi titigil yan. I am very confident na after the Senate hearing baka lalo pang tumagal at lalo pa kaming bigyan ng imprimatur dahil magkakaalaman. We will show the things that we are seeing and we will show it to the public," Torre said.

Quiboloy, a self-proclaimed "Son of God", was charged by the US Justice Department in 2021 with sex-trafficking of girls and women aged 12 to 25 to work as personal assistants, or "pastorals", who were allegedly required to have sex with him. 

In June, the Philippine justice department charged Quiboloy with sexual abuse.

Quiboloy and five other defendants have also been charged with qualified human trafficking and other acts of child abuse.

Quiboloy said he wanted a written guarantee from the Philippine government that "there will be no American interference and no extraordinary rendition" in the case if he surrenders to face charges in the Philippines.

"Unless you give me the guarantee I'm looking for, you won't see me. Go ahead and manhunt me," Quiboloy said in a voice clip posted in July on the YouTube channel of his church's television network Sonshine Media.

He said women had made up the sex abuse accusations against him because he rejected them.

President Ferdinand Marcos, Jr. this week said Quiboloy's conditions to surrender were " immaterial" as the matter was no longer in the hands of the Executive Department. 

“Parang hindi niya yata masyadong naintindihan ang proseso ng pag --- pagka nag-issue ang korte ng bench warrant or warrant for arrest, it is out of our hands already. It is in the courts' hands,” Marcos said in an interview.

(He does not seem to understand the procedure. Once a court issues a warrant, the executive branch can longer intervene.)

“Kailangan ang kausap niya ang korte. Dahil ang executive, ang papel lang namin ngayon ay arestuhin siya. So, all of these conditions that he's putting in are immaterial," Marcos added. 

-- With reports from Hernel Tocmo; Agence France-Presse 

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