So you want Kerenga Kua as the next PM- Oh Please!

By PNG Echo Social media has started throwing around Kerenga Kua’s name as a possible next Prime Minister of Papua New Guinea. In my opinion, it’s an ill-considered notion and this is why: Firstly, having spent many years as the late Sir Michael Somare’s personal lawyer, Kua, no doubt, knows where all the bodies are buried, what’s more, as his legal representative he likely would have helped Sir Michael dig the graves. If Sir Michael knows a certain something about corruption you have to wonder who was the master and who was the apprentice in this relationship. Hypocrisy Secondly, the Continue reading So you want Kerenga Kua as the next PM- Oh Please!

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Political shenanigans in PNG: Could the Chief Justice be involved?

By PNG Echo. Veteran former ABC Journalist and Pacific correspondent, Sean Dorney, has called the recent spate of political and judicial wranglings in Papua New Guinea “stranger than fiction,” but are they really? It’s about power: wars have been fought for it, sons have killed fathers for it and innocent people have become a victim to it. And while the quest for power is rarely altruistic, hypocritical usurpers often invoke altruism to justify their lust for it. And so it happens in Papua New Guinea where the desperate, wanting the head of the Prime Minister, say they’re fighting corruption. But Continue reading Political shenanigans in PNG: Could the Chief Justice be involved?

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