Overwhelming Evidence of Unitech Management Secret Undermining of Unitech Student Fight For Justice for Schram and a Decent Education
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There is growing evidence of a conspiracy between members of government and Acting VC Professor John Pumwa in particular to prevent the students from winning their fight for fairness and justice for VC Albert Schram.
The first evidence was the very unconvincing presentation given by Pumwa, along with Pro-VC Macquin Maino and Registrar Veronica Thomas at the student organised forum on Friday 28 March. They kept giving as their excuse that they had to work within their job boundaries. They neglected the reality that anyone who cares can speak out as private citizens (apologies to one or more of them if they have been writing under pen names some of the excellent articles published on pngblogs over the past year).
The second evidence was John Pumwa’s strange “sermon” at his church on Sunday 2 March. At that time he indicated that a deal had been struck between him and O’Neill to bypass Schram and make Pumwa permanent VC. He apparently went into great detail to explain to church members why he and not Schram should have gotten the job in the first place.
The third evidence was the Thursday 6 March arrival of OHE Minister Delilah Gore and OHE Director David Kavanamur and their secret meetings with the Acting VC at NARI. The hope that student leaders would participate in the closed door meetings was fortunately turned down by the students themselves who now realise that it was a trick to get them to give up their boycott, in the same way as what happened when SRC president Livingstone Hosea last year had meetings in Moresby then came back and suddenly stopped the boycott without convincing explanations.
Now comes the fourth and fifth pieces of evidence on Monday 10 March. The Acting VC held a secret special meeting with HODs to discuss the boycott. Shortly afterwards he held a meeting with governor Kelly Naru. Once again behind closed doors and no report on what was actually said.
There is no doubt anymore that the SEM has been playing games with students and staff. Pumwa and Maino, at least, only pretend to be on the student’s side. John Pumwa in particular has said loud and clear the same message, sent to many pairs of ears, that the government has decided that Schram is not coming back and Pumwa has been appointed the new permenant VC. He has never said this to the students and come clean.
If the students are not able to stop the disaster we will call John Pumwa, the future for all of us at Unitech will be
Continued deterioration of Unitech’s learning infrastructure and even worse education for current students compared to previous years.
A long, international shaming of our country by international audiences, donors and others in protest at the low priority Unitech SEM and PNG government has for guaranteeing justice and basic human rights and justice of people in the country. The evidence will be the bad treatment of Albert Schram left abandoned for over a year by an uncaring population.
Leadership without vision for Unitech, continuing the misty Baloiloi tradition of 18 years for however many years Pumwa remains the VC. Expats will leave in disgust and the dream of an international style university with international exposure and ideas flowing into Unitech will be over except for Pumwa’s cheap words and empty promises.
A green light for corrupt former and present staff at Unitech that in PNG you can steal and never get punished, you can run out opponents especially expatriates and come out on top. A green light for all our white collar thugs and money stealers to continue destroying this country. No matter what the PM says, Peter O’Neill himself has no interest in honesty or justice for our people but wants all alternative viewpoints silenced while he fills his own pockets. We now see from the Sengi report that the Unitech SEC has barely moved in implementing its recommendations for prosecution.
There has never been a time in the history of PNG where the nation’s future relied so critically on the actions of our uni students. Over the next 3 weeks it will become clear if this year’s Unitech students are unique and special.
We will see if they are willing to sacrifice personally for the benefit of PNG or prove to be no different from students before them whose inattention and unconcern let Unitech slowly fall apart.
They are our main hope to stop our PNG's downward slide into dictatorship, corruption, fixed elections, do nothing people, falling apart infrastructure, and everything else that can be seen in small scale at Unitech.
Please pray that our students at Unitech will do the right thing and will not give up. The clock is striking the deadline for Schram to come back is only 20 days away.
There is growing evidence of a conspiracy between members of government and Acting VC Professor John Pumwa in particular to prevent the students from winning their fight for fairness and justice for VC Albert Schram.
The first evidence was the very unconvincing presentation given by Pumwa, along with Pro-VC Macquin Maino and Registrar Veronica Thomas at the student organised forum on Friday 28 March. They kept giving as their excuse that they had to work within their job boundaries. They neglected the reality that anyone who cares can speak out as private citizens (apologies to one or more of them if they have been writing under pen names some of the excellent articles published on pngblogs over the past year).
The second evidence was John Pumwa’s strange “sermon” at his church on Sunday 2 March. At that time he indicated that a deal had been struck between him and O’Neill to bypass Schram and make Pumwa permanent VC. He apparently went into great detail to explain to church members why he and not Schram should have gotten the job in the first place.
The third evidence was the Thursday 6 March arrival of OHE Minister Delilah Gore and OHE Director David Kavanamur and their secret meetings with the Acting VC at NARI. The hope that student leaders would participate in the closed door meetings was fortunately turned down by the students themselves who now realise that it was a trick to get them to give up their boycott, in the same way as what happened when SRC president Livingstone Hosea last year had meetings in Moresby then came back and suddenly stopped the boycott without convincing explanations.
Now comes the fourth and fifth pieces of evidence on Monday 10 March. The Acting VC held a secret special meeting with HODs to discuss the boycott. Shortly afterwards he held a meeting with governor Kelly Naru. Once again behind closed doors and no report on what was actually said.
There is no doubt anymore that the SEM has been playing games with students and staff. Pumwa and Maino, at least, only pretend to be on the student’s side. John Pumwa in particular has said loud and clear the same message, sent to many pairs of ears, that the government has decided that Schram is not coming back and Pumwa has been appointed the new permenant VC. He has never said this to the students and come clean.
If the students are not able to stop the disaster we will call John Pumwa, the future for all of us at Unitech will be
Continued deterioration of Unitech’s learning infrastructure and even worse education for current students compared to previous years.
A long, international shaming of our country by international audiences, donors and others in protest at the low priority Unitech SEM and PNG government has for guaranteeing justice and basic human rights and justice of people in the country. The evidence will be the bad treatment of Albert Schram left abandoned for over a year by an uncaring population.
Leadership without vision for Unitech, continuing the misty Baloiloi tradition of 18 years for however many years Pumwa remains the VC. Expats will leave in disgust and the dream of an international style university with international exposure and ideas flowing into Unitech will be over except for Pumwa’s cheap words and empty promises.
A green light for corrupt former and present staff at Unitech that in PNG you can steal and never get punished, you can run out opponents especially expatriates and come out on top. A green light for all our white collar thugs and money stealers to continue destroying this country. No matter what the PM says, Peter O’Neill himself has no interest in honesty or justice for our people but wants all alternative viewpoints silenced while he fills his own pockets. We now see from the Sengi report that the Unitech SEC has barely moved in implementing its recommendations for prosecution.
There has never been a time in the history of PNG where the nation’s future relied so critically on the actions of our uni students. Over the next 3 weeks it will become clear if this year’s Unitech students are unique and special.
We will see if they are willing to sacrifice personally for the benefit of PNG or prove to be no different from students before them whose inattention and unconcern let Unitech slowly fall apart.
They are our main hope to stop our PNG's downward slide into dictatorship, corruption, fixed elections, do nothing people, falling apart infrastructure, and everything else that can be seen in small scale at Unitech.
Please pray that our students at Unitech will do the right thing and will not give up. The clock is striking the deadline for Schram to come back is only 20 days away.
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