12/06/2024
OFFICIAL STATEMENT OF KINGDOM OF JESUS CHRIST | 12 JUNE 2024
“THE PNP IS NOT TELLING THE TRUTH ABOUT THE DAWN ATTACK ON THE KOJC”: KOJC DISPROVES PNP STATEMENT ON “LAWFUL” ENTRY AND MAXIMUM TOLERANCE
CCTV footage has shown that the violent dawn attack by hundreds of heavily armed PNP, CIDG and SAF forces on the Kingdom of Jesus Christ compounds in Davao City last Monday, JUNE 10, was illegal and carried out with unnecessary and unrestrained force, completely disproving the PNP’s claims in a press conference today, that their operation was “lawful” and exercised with “maximum tolerance.”
Philippine National Police, which was serving a warrant of arrest for Pastor Apollo C. Quiboloy and five others, said that they stormed the KOJC compound because they were hit by a water cannon.
However, CCTV footage shows the PNP’s claim is false. The footage showed that the water cannon was used only when the soldiers after forced their way into the compound.
It also showed fully-armed PNP and SAF soldiers already poised to enter the KOJC compound at 3:45 am, while SAF soldiers climbed up a ladder at the gate and jumped into the compound, ignoring Kingdom security guards who told them to wait for the Kingdom’s lawyers, since the PNP could not produce a search warrant.
A number of the missionaries sustained injuries after the PNP’s violent entry, including a woman who got kicked on her face by a military boot. Two other male missionaries also sustained injuries on their shoulders and arms.
Atty. Laurente , KOJC Counsel, also said it is not true that PNP “had no choice but to destroy the gate at the Glory Mountain property of the KOJC in Tamayong, Mt. Apo, because the missionaries did not allow them to enter” as they claimed.
“The armed soldiers were told that they would be allowed to enter once they can produce a search warrant. But they refused to listen and instead tore down the gate when they entered,” she said.
The soldiers forcefully dispersed a group of indigenous missionaries and farmers injuring at least six of them, including two minors, a female and three other male workers, who stopped their morning devotional prayers because the soldiers arrived.
Atty. Laurente also clarified that as soon as the KOJC lawyers arrived at the gate of the Davao City compound, they verified the warrant of arrest served by the PNP, and then supervised their entry into the compound, together with the church workers, to prove that there was clearly no intent to willfully delay or obstruct the implementation of the warrant of arrest, as the PNP wanted to establish.
