IT was meant to be a long vacation for all but alas, the vacation sparked with the forcible entry and trespassing made by PNP Director Nicolas Torre III at the Kingdom of Jesus Christ (KOJC) in Davao City, shocking everyone. President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. moved the commemoration of Ninoy Aquino Day this year from August 21 to August 23 via Proclamation 665, signed by Executive Secretary Lucas Bersamin on August 15; he also declared August 23 as a special (non-working) day. Who would have thought the sleight of hand was designed to provide cover for the Torre-led PNP offensive against Pastor Quiboloy, the religious head of KOJC who is not yet convicted contrary to the claims of those in the Marcos administration and some members of the Senate committee. The long holiday allowed Torre free will to do as he pleased because there was no court to stop him or his supervisors.

Torre should have studied carefully how to go about serving a warrant of arrest. One, KOJC is a religious organization. Torre, being a member of the INC, should know his truth. Two, KOJC is private property. Imagine occupying it for more than 72 hours; that should have been a violation but who argues with a mad police director who flaunts his gun, vest, helmet and toys like the long-range acoustic device (LRAD), a loudspeaker that produces sound at high power for communicating at a distance, and a talitrix system, a new prison-monitoring technology that tracks inmates' location via heartbeats.