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DAVAO CITY — The seven arrested sellers of the durian candy that poisoned around 1,900 schoolchildren in the three provinces of Caraga region were confirmed members of Pastor Apollo Quiboloy’s “Jesus Above Every Name” church.

This was the confirmation from Quiboloy’s lawyer Atty. Sweetheart Alde-vera after she sent a team on Monday to Caraga to investigate on the incident and conduct audit trail in the towns where there were victims of the food poisoning.

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Aldevera said they had an instruction from Qui-boloy, who has been out of the country for his U.S. sortie long before the incident happened, to closely coordinate and cooperate with the local government units and the police in all areas of investigation.

At the same time, Aldevera said her team is currently focusing on bailing out the seven church members while investigation is going on and pending result of the laboratory tests of the samples of candies taken from the arrested persons and from the factory here.

“We are waiting for the resolution of the prosecutor on how much bail bond we are going to pay,” she said, adding that they are also discussing how they can assist the victims.

“We would like to be fair with everybody,” Aldevera said. (PNA)

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