Can we trust Team Task Force Sweep?
By LUCAS KIAP My faith and hope about the Task Force Team to fight corruption has diminished after I saw the headline of the front page of Post Courier this morning (Friday, May 31, 2013), which read, “Wartoto nabbed”. The Chairman of the Task Force Sweep Team, according to this paper (Post Courier), said and I quote, “As a matter of Law, Mr Wartoto remains innocent until proven otherwise by a court of law”. He also said and I quote again, “The intentions of the government may have been genuine but greed, lack of management and monitoring, parking funds in authorities/agencies that lacked capacity to managed them and political patronage had resulted in millions of Kina being stolen and wasted”. We are forced to believe and have faith in our laws which had never been used successfully to prosecute and put behind bars white collar criminals. If there are such laws exist to prosecute white-collar criminals, then the people of Papua New Guinea no longer have faith in