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‘Hospital arrest’ for Quiboloy junked
By J.Lo
“We received this morning order denying it,” Israelito Torreon, Kingdom of Jesus Christ (KOJC) leader Apollo Quiboloy lead counsel told reporters on sidelines of pre-trial conference at Pasig court said Pasig regional trial court has junked petition to have Quiboloy placed under “hospital arrest” at Veterans Memorial Medical Center in Davao City.
Torreon, said court’s Branch 159 denied motion for hospital arrest they filed in September due to KOJC leader’s existing medical condition.
“Yes the judge denied our motion, though the judge clarified during our hearing this afternoon that we can coordinate with the warden of Camp Crame Custodial Center if there is an urgent need for Pastor Apollo Quiboloy to be brought to the hospital. But only that it should be with the PNP General Hospital within Camp Crame,” he .said
Torreon said they intend to ask court to reconsider its decision.
Brig. Gen. Jean Fajardo, Philippine National Police (PNP) public information officer, said they have yet to receive an update about court proceedings.
She declined to reveal results of medical examination conducted by PNP Health Service on Quiboloy who is accused of qualified human trafficking at Pasig court and child and sex abuse cases at Quezon City court.
“I don’t have personal confirmation with respect to court ruling on medical findings submitted by PNP,” Fajardo said.
Quiboloy remains detained at PNP Custodial Center at Camp Crame over a month after he was arrested on Sept. 8 at KOJC compound in Davao City.
Commission on Elections (Comelec) Chairman George Garcia said Quiboloy might still run as independent candidate for senator after Workers and Peasants Party (WPP), supposedly nominated his senatorial bid, disowned KOJC leader.
Garcia said Quiboloy cannot be declared “nuisance candidate” even if WPP denied him party membership.
Quiboloy is still included in partial official list of aspirants qualified to run in Senate race, he added.
“If person’s candidacy is questioned by his own party, he can still run as an independent candidate,” Garcia said, noting that 17 of 66 aspirants qualified to run for senator are independent candidates.
He added that Comelec is unlikely to declare Quiboloy nuisance simply because of the submission of fake certificate of nomination and acceptance (CONA).
“Just because nomination was removed he is now considered nuisance, answer is no because CONA is not basis and ground for declaring someone nuisance candidate,” Garcia explained.
WPP president Sonny Matula earlier filed before Comelec petition seeking to declare Quiboloy nuisance candidate and to disqualify him from Senate race for misrepresenting himself as party member.
Garcia said Comelec still has to look into this complaint of misrepresentation and that it intends to resolve all pending nuisance cases before end of November or before printing of ballots in December.
Unless those declared nuisance would be able to secure temporary restraining order from Supreme Court, Garcia said their names will not be included on official ballots.
Police Criminal Investigation and Detection Group (CIDG) filed sedition and inciting to sedition complaints against Torreon, two hosts of Sonshine Media Network International and nine others before Department of Justice.
CIDG chief Brig. Gen. Nicolas Torre III led filing of complaints against Torreon, Lorraine Badoy (who previously served as spokesperson for the National Task Force to End Local Communist Armed Conflict), Jeffrey Celiz, Eleanor Cardona, Carlo Catil, Kathleen Kaye Laurente, Trinidad Arafol, Lord Byron Cristobal, Joey Espina Sun, Esteban Lava, Jose Lim III and lawyer Marie Dinah Tolentino-Fuentes.
Torre alleged 12 committed sedition and inciting to sedition when they hindered police operatives from serving arrest warrants against Quiboloy inside KOJC compound in Davao City last month.
“The government is serving warrant of arrest against five fugitives and they prevented us from doing so… that is qualified for sedition and inciting sedition…we alleged in the complaint that they called on the people to rise against government, prevent police from serving warrant of arrest and many others,” Torre told reporters.
Complaint also alleged 12, along with KOJC supporters and members, barricaded compound’s gate and “manifested their opposition to the conduct” of police operation…
Vehicles of KOJC members and supporters likewise barricaded highway and attacked members of police’s Civil Disturbance Unit (CDM).
Protesters also threw plastic chairs and stones at CDM contingents, sprayed fire extinguishers and mocked police officers.
Under Revised Penal Code, sedition is committed when people rise “publicly and tumultuously” to prevent government from exercising its functions, among others. Inciting to sedition is committed when people, without taking any direct part in the crime of sedition, “incite others to accomplishment of any of the acts which constitute sedition.”
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