Former president Rodrigo Roa Duterte’s Spiritual Adviser, the self-appointed "Son of God" pastor Apollo Quiboloy showed his devilish scheme against innocent youths via his “Kingdom Of Jesus Christ” (K0JC) by invoking “his right against self-incrimination” during the October 23, 2024 hearing before the Congress’ QUAD Committee.
Resource persons, composed of Quiboloy’s ex-followers, including a Ukrainian woman, detailed how they had to surrender, if unable to avoid, (given the threats of harm or even being killed by his private army “Angels of Death”) to his sexual advances.
Newspaper accounts mentioned that Quiboloy may have sexually abused about 200 girls/women, from way back as early as in the early 1990s. To all these accusations during the live-streamed hearing, he kept his peace. Or at one time or another in the past, he said that they were all lies.
Partners In Crime?
From the live-streamed QUAD Committee hearings, viewers could only express shock and speculate how Quiboloy managed to set up and locate his KOJC "church" in an area spanning many hectares of land in Davao. KOJC has well-structured organizational processes and system of funding, with memberships coming from the US and other countries.
Could the former mayor and former president have had a hand in the successful setting-up of his spiritual adviser’s "church"? Or, just another speculation -- given the fact that the former president taunted the law enforcement authorities, saying that he would not aid them in their search for the fugitive Quiboloy, are they possibly also “partners in the crimes against humanity”?
For now, KOJC and Quiboloy’s standing as allegedly guilty of human trafficking and sexual abuses, among other possible crimes, remains a mystery on so many aspects.
But what is important for the Filipino people is that Apollo Quiboloy is currently under the custody of the country’s law authorities.
Hope For Justice
Surely, sooner or later, the whole truth will be known. And Apollo Quiboloy and all those who somehow had a hand in enabling and helping him to commit crimes against certain individuals or against the Filipino people, will be held to account and punished in accordance with the gravity of their specific offenses.
Under this President Bongbong Marcos-VP Sara Duterte administration, is there hope JUSTICE will soon be served? So that then, the Bongbong-Sara tandem and their cabinet secretaries, and the many public officials can then fully concentrate on expediting the country’s economic growth by providing jobs or livelihoods for the jobless, fair wages for the workers, farmers, fishermen, IPs, and appropriate assistance to the millions of marginalized and voiceless poor Filipinos who have long been striving to enjoy decent lives.
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