A step too far: Consequences and backlash

By PNG Echo. Anti-government forces, the ones disguised as anti-corruption fighters, have gone a step too far to achieve their political goals. Up until now, they have been tolerated, even supported – their thinly-disguised political ambitions overlooked as some Papua New Guineans hoped they were the genuine article, while suspecting that they may not be. But the love affair is over. The people have lately been given a small taste of the consequences of what activists such as Noel Anjo have visited on PNG – as they drive their masters’ political agendas – the faceless men. Underlying provincial tensions have Continue reading A step too far: Consequences and backlash

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Damaru’s charges stayed: What irony, what blatant hypocrisy!

By PNG Echo. Yesterday, Judge Polume heard an urgent application, ex parte (without the opposing parties) to stay the criminal charges recently levelled against Fraud Squad Officer, Matthew Damaru. Ostensibly, according to her ruling, this was to enable Damaru to continue with his policing duties. So what was stopping him, in the first place? According to the press release of the RPNGC immediately following the arrest: Mr Andrews [Deputy Police Commissioner] said whilst Mr Damaru is criminally charged for the alleged offences, he remains on active duty as Director NFACD and continues to perform his normal Constitutional Duties. So what Continue reading Damaru’s charges stayed: What irony, what blatant hypocrisy!

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