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Belden Namah’s demise: The ‘push’ factor (or: lack of effective leadership)

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By PNG Echo In a press statement issued earlier this week, Belden Namah, leader of a rapidly diminishing parliamentary opposition, vehemently denied that the defection of his MPs had anything to do with defective leadership and everything to do with the lure of money.  (A considerable irony, given his admission of using K50 million in the 2012 elections to buy votes and loyalty – yes Mr. O’Neill, I’m with you: where did that come from?) Back in June of 2012 I wrote It’s a sad spectacle to see Namah on the campaign trail, trying to buy admiration.  Showing off his Continue reading Belden Namah’s demise: The ‘push’ factor (or: lack of effective leadership)→

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A lay-down misère: The PMs court case.

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By PNG Echo The Prime Minister played a winning hand. In fact, so good were his cards that he had that very rare commodity in a card game – a ‘lay-down misère’. A lay-down misère is a hand so good that it is played in full view of the other players with no risk.  It’s brazen and it’s shamelessly triumphant. However, you would be forgiven for thinking that the Prime Minister may have ‘stacked the deck’ by removing all the opponent’s trumps (Sam Koim, ITFS, Thomas Eluh, Kerenga Kua…) with one of the last being dissenting Solicitor-General, Ms Jubilee Tindiwi. Continue reading A lay-down misère: The PMs court case.→

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