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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Twivey and Sakora arrested: Justice scorned

By PNG Echo The accosting and arrest of lawyer, Tiffany Twivey, at Jacksons Airport, yesterday, is a considerable blight on every law enforcement officer in Papua New Guinea by association with senior but rogue police officers, Damaru and Gitua and the Machiavellian, Sam Koim. When around 10 plain-clothes police started shouting aggressively at Twivey after she’d exited the arrivals hall of Jacksons Airport, she had no idea why they were shouting for her to get into their car. Twivey’s 85-year-old mother, frail and fragile, was travelling with her and she was confused, upset and frightened as she watched her daughter Continue reading Twivey and Sakora arrested: Justice scorned

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