ONLY if you have been living on another planet would you believe that the Philippine National Police (PNP) a few days ago had mobilized 2,000 policemen and raided religious leader Apollo Quiboloy's compound merely in order to uphold the rule of law by serving warrants for his arrest. The army general in charge of Eastern Mindanao even announced the other day that "four companies" of soldiers — about 800 — would help hunt for the Kingdom of Jesus Christ (KOJC) leader in the religious organization's compound near Davao City.
Nothing of this scale has ever happened to hunt down a fugitive, certainly not in the case of former prisons head Gerald Bantag, accused of killing the hard-hitting broadcast journalist Percy Lapid, or in the case of former congressman Arnolfo Teves, the alleged mastermind in the killing of governor Roel Degamo and nine other innocent people who happened to be in the politician-rival's front yard waiting to get government cash grants.
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