7 GUNS TURNED OVER BUT WHERE’S QUIBOLOY?
SEVEN of the 19 registered firearms of Pastor Apollo C. Quiboloy have been surrendered to the Philippine National Police by his camp even as the religious leader remained elusive and still to be arrested by the National Bureau of Investigation, the lead agency tasked to bring him to the bars of justice as of Wednesday.
According to PNP chief General Rommel Francisco D. Marbil, the firearms were surrendered by Quiboloy’s camp to the Police Regional Office 11 on Wednesday morning.
Quiboloy’s allies vowed to turn in the rest of his firearms to the police after Gen. Marbil revoked the pastor’s License to Own and Possess Firearm and Firearm Registration in light of the criminal charges filed against him.
PNP spokesperson Colonel Jean S. Fajardo said over 7,500 gun permits issued to authorized individuals in the country including Quiboloy have been revoked form 2023 to date following violations of the law committed by the licensees.
Fajardo said a total of 1,592 Firearm Registration issued by the PNP Firearms and Explosives Office have been revoked from January 1 to date. The gun license may be renewed within six months prior to its expiry date.
The PNP-FEO headed by Colonel Christopher T. Acop said since the year started has also revoked 17 License to Own and Posses Firearms or LTOFP including those issued to Quiboloy and one of his co-accused in a child abuse case.
Last year, the PNP-FEO revoked a total of 6,107 Firearm Registration, over 4,000 of them found to have been unrenewed for so many years which is a ground for automatic revocation.
` The records will prove that the PNP has not singled out Quiboloy in its move to revoke the gun permits issued to qualified Filipinos found to have committed violations of the law.
In 2022 alone, the PNP-FEO revoked 41 LTOFPs for various violations and seized the 201
Gen. Marbil has also ordered the new PRO!1 director in Southern Mindanao, Brigadier Gen. Aligre L. Martinez to make sure that there will be no let-up in the hunt for Quiboloy.
Col. Fajardo said that everybody must also understand that Quiboloy has ‘vast resources’ which makes it hard for government agents to get him. However, she said that authorities are continuing to talk with Quiboloy’s lawyer and telling them to convince the former to yield and face the charges against him in court.
The official also warned that anybody who will be found helping Quiboloy escape from the law will face charges for coddling a wanted person or harboring a fugitive.
