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The Kramer Effect

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By PNG Echo The people of Papua New Guinea have always been Kramer’s pawns. He rode to power on the back of popular issues that he promised to solve, including the promise to bring powerful (and allegedly corrupt) people to justice, especially the then Prime Minister, Peter O’Neill who, at the time, was getting a lot of flak (and I do mean a lot) on the pages of the country’s social media over many of his more controversial decisions. Kramer took the temperature of the nation and gave them a placebo – for which he was almost deified, and he Continue reading The Kramer Effect→

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Retribution or reform?

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By PNG Echo A Supreme Court ruling yesterday that granted an injunction against police arresting Finance Minister, James Marape, saw a full bench of the Supreme Court tacitly endorsing the new, National-Executive-Council-appointed Police Commissioner Geoffrey Vaki in their deliberations. Earlier this week, this time in the National Court, Justice Gavara-Nanu granted a permanent stay against the NEC order that disbanded the Task Force Sweep (TFS) and set up an Interim Office. The decisions solve nothing and create two investigation bodies (men) claiming court sanctioned legitimacy. The Police Commissioner does not agree with how Task Force Sweep has gone about prosecuting Continue reading Retribution or reform?→

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