The Supreme Court on Wednesday said it has required the Senate to comment on the petition filed by Kingdom of Jesus Christ leader Pastor Apollo Quiboloy seeking to stop the Upper Chamber from implementing its warrant of arrest against him.
This prompted Quiboloy to ask the high court to stop the Senate from enforcing its arrest order against him, calling it “unjust and unconstitutional.”The Senate issued the arrest order after Quiboloy refused to appear before the chamber’s committee on women, children, family relations and gender equality to answer allegations of human trafficking, rape, sexual abuse and violence leveled against him and his sect by former members. The chamber’s committee is chaired by Sen. Risa Hontiveros.
“It is evident that respondents are using and abusing their legislative power to secure his conviction in any manner, on the basis of one-sided statements of witnesses, uncorroborated by documentary evidence, sourced and presented by the respondents alone,” it added. Quiboloy’s camp cited a recent Supreme Court ruling, which stated that congressional hearings “cannot be punitive in the sense that they cannot result in legally binding deprivation of a person’s life, liberty or property.”
Hontiveros guaranteed they certainly will comply with the directive of the SC as they are fully aware of the principle of separation of powers and with only the highest respect for the country’s institutions.
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