TACLOBAN CITY, April 23 -- Philippine National Police (PNP) chief Gen. Rommel Francisco Marbil on Tuesday said they are doing their best to arrest fugitive pastor Apollo Quiboloy.

Speaking to reporters during his brief visit at the Police Regional Office 8 headquarters in Palo, Leyte, Marbil said they have been helping the National Bureau of Investigation (NBI), the lead agency in the manhunt, find the location of Quiboloy.

"We have a strategy to locate him. We are closing in, and we are very diplomatic about it," he said, discounting Senator Risa Hontiveros' statement that the police are slow in implementing warrants of arrest against Quiboloy.

Quiboloy is facing qualified human trafficking and child sexual abuse charges.

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