Where are Guo and Quiboloy?

THE question, really now, is: Where are the two high profile fugitives against whom separate arrest warrants were issued months back?

We refer to Pastor Apollo Quiboloy of the Kingdom of Jesus Christ and dismissed Bamban, Tarlac Mayor Alice Guo who, authorities confirmed, is the same Guo Hua Ping, a Chinese citizen who arrived in the Philippines when she was 12 years old.

Her family’s Special Investor’s Resident Visa indicate that, as Guo Hua Ping, Alice Guo holds a Chinese passport and migrated to the Philippines on Jan. 12, 2003, with the National Bureau of Investigation confirming the fingerprints of Alice Guo matched with those of Chinese passport holder Guo Hua Ping, which suggests she was never a Filipino citizen, her avowals notwithstanding.

In the House of Representatives, during deliberations on the proposed 2025 budget of the Department of Interior and Local Government, one lawmaker pointed out the contrast between PNP’s implementation of arrest warrants against regular and high-profile subjects.

Senate Deputy Minority Leader Risa Hontiveros also suggested there may have been a breakdown in PNP “intelligence gathering” due to the continued failure of the police to locate and arrest the fugitive religious leader.

Interior Secretary Benhur Abalos, defending the efforts of the DILG and PNP in looking for the fugitive televangelist nearly five months after the Senate issued the arrest order, said: “As far as Quiboloy is concerned and the others, we are doing everything we can.

“In fact, we are sued on record, the PNP and I are facing cases due to the raid at the Kingdom of Jesus Christ compound, and we are going to answer their accusations against us.”

Documents from Abalos showed “full-time miracle workers” of the KOJC filed the complaints against him and PNP officials for violating Articles 128 (domicile), 132 (interruption of religious worship), 133 (offending of religious feelings), and Article 282 (grave threats) of the Revised Penal Code before the Davao City Prosecutor’s Office last month.

The arrest order against Quiboloy was issued over contempt for snubbing subpoenas to attend joint committee hearings, and four months since the Pasig Regional Trial Court ordered his arrest for qualified human trafficking charges.

The Senate, meanwhile, issued an arrest order against dismissed Guo last month after she was cited in contempt for repeated failure to attend the committee hearings into illegal Philippine Offshore Gaming Operations in Bamban.

PNP chief Gen. Rommel Marbil had given assurances investigation and surveillance operations continue, in coordination with other government agencies and intelligence units, to implement the arrest orders against Quiboloy and Guo.

A senator in July gave an ultimatum to law enforcers to arrest Guo and said their 2025 budget could be affected.

As Lewis Carroll and the surprised Alice in Wonderland had said, things are “getting curiouser and curiouser.”

Indeed, something is getting increasingly confounding.

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