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Courts court confusion: PMs arrest warrant.

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By PNG Echo. Chief Magistrate, Ms. Nerrie Eliakim, yesterday (July 4, 2014), dismissed an application from police to set aside an arrest warrant for the Prime Minister of Papua New Guinea, Peter O’Neill, in the Committal Court, Waigani. The decision of Ms Eliakim who is believed to be close to former Justice Minister and Attorney General, Kerenga Kua, will seriously undermine the authority of the newly-appointed Police Commissioner, Geoffrey Vaki and police powers. Stated under S197 (2) of the Constitution is that the functions of the police are not only to lay and prosecute charges but also withdraw them As Continue reading Courts court confusion: PMs arrest warrant.→

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All of the 77 evil and corrupt SABL’s are cancelled.

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By PNG Echo Today will go down in the annals of PNG history as a day when something insightful, far-reaching and concrete was finally done about corrupt practises in PNG.  But this is not my story to tell – it belongs to all those that have fought tooth and nail to save the environment.  So over to you Tiffany Twivey-Nonggorr who writes: You want to talk about corruption fighting?  Well this government has just killed the biggest corrupt dealing of the past 10 years. During the Somare government, a heinous scheme of issuing SABLs over large forest areas was created Continue reading All of the 77 evil and corrupt SABL’s are cancelled.→

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