WHO CAUSED THE PUBLIC HUMILIATION OF HERST MINISTER DELILAH GORE IN LAE?
Who set up poor Delilah Gore for public humiliation last
Thursday in Lae? Only a deaf mute would
not have heard that Unitech students were demanding either yes or no answer for
the return of Albert Schram. The
students stated repeatedly that they would not negotiate. Under those conditions the new Minister for
HERST would be insane to fly to Lae if she had anything to offer but a yes
answer that Schram was now allowed to come back.
The trip quickly became a public relations disaster. Once she arrived, Minister Gore wouldn’t
come to Unitech, because of “security concern” (why didn’t she have that concern
before she left Moresby?). Then she requested
student leaders to come to the NARI compound outside Lae to talk. That was an invitation reminiscent of the government’s
close door invitations last year to the SRC president. Those secret meetings resulted in a strange
180 degree turn in the stance of the SRC president. SRC
leaders didn’t bite this time at the invitation to bribery or intimidation.
Minister Gore arrived at Nadzab and established her
communication headquarters at NARI. Then
came the embarrassment of Acting VC John Pumwa being blocked by students as he
tried to exit unigate. Where was the
Acting VC going? To a closed door
meeting with Minister Gore and the Unitech Council, of course!
To top it all off, Minister Gore met with the sources of all
evil at Unitech, the deposed Chancellor Philip Stagg and Ralph Saulep of the
former Unitech Council.
Plenty secrets in Lae on Thursday and Minister Gore was at
the centre.
The lasting impression of the trip was that at best it was
nothing more than another delay tactic, complete with more closed door meetings
(always the preferred tool of people who have something to hide). Thankfully for PNG, Unitech’s students were
not impressed.
In view of the Minister Gore’s strong statements earlier in
the week that she would solve the Unitech Saga once and for all, the poor lady
earned one big mud pie on the face from her visit to Lae. It is clear that she is over her head and she
has no solutions to Unitech Saga that involve the return of Schram. Her bag of tricks consist of nothing but the
same government deceptions that created the Saga in the first place.
Being as ignorant about Unitech Saga as the Minister now
shows herself to be (witness her verbal stumbling during the EMTV interview
last Wednesday), Mrs Gore obviously needs advice on how to solve the problem no
one else has been able to solve. Obviously she would first turn to resources
within HERST. Obviously she is getting very
very bad advice from those resources.
Who might they be?
First on the list is the infamous OHE Director General David
‘Koward’ Kavanamur. Kavanamur is the supposed
top dog intellectual of OHE whose extensive learning never seemed to send a
warning flag to his brain that the boss (David Arore) he used to so willingly cooperate
with was an incompetent womanising unpredictable alcoholic. Even the Prime Minister came to see that
Arore was a disaster, which is why he booted him out of HERST last week. David Kavanamur, on the other hand, helped keep
the idiot in office since 2012, propping him up with all necessary support to
help Arore create an illusion of competence.
At Arore’s departure party two weeks ago, Kavanamur saluted the sacked
Minister’s great positive impact on HERST.
Please, David Kavanamur.
Don’t make us vomit! Have you no
shame?
That is correct. ‘Koward’ Kavanamur has no shame. To understand why, discover his current situation. You see, Nationalist PNG patriot Kavanamur
doesn’t even consider himself a resident of PNG. Years ago he nicely settled his family into
a house in northern Queensland (could someone over in Oz supply us a photo?),
which he commutes to by jet from his job in Moresby. That kind of lifestyle costs money, lots of
it. ‘Koward’ Kavanamur earned his
nickname because he won’t speak out in the name of justice because of his
addiction to the lifestyle of the rich and famous. In
layman’s language, he has sold his soul to the devil.
To protect his self interests, Kavanamur has become a man
who talks a lot and says nothing. Nowhere was this more evident than when he
appeared on EMTV news a day before the ill fated trip of Minister Gore to Lae
and talked about factors and factors, including politics and more politics,
which he said affected any solutions to the Unitech Saga. At no time did Kavanamur offer a single
detail to explain anything he was saying.
One of Kavanamur’s most unconscionable statements was to
allude that Judge Mark Sevua’s objectivity in his report had been corrupted by
different interests. What Kavanamur
failed to mention (purposely?) was that any unfairness that existed with
respect to the Sevua investigation was unfairness against Unitech VC Albert
Schram. The investigation’s terms of reference
was written mostly by Anti-Albert Schram former Pro-Chancellor Saulep, a
slimeball lawyer who in collusion with former Chancellor Stagg, milked Unitech
for years to fund personal pleasures.
Five out of the six terms of reference for the Sevua investigation were purposely stacked against Schram.
Despite this bias, Judge Sevua managed
to achieve great objectivity in the report, letting the cards fall where they
should. The Sevua report’s cards fell in
a pattern that clearly pointed to years of corruption under the
Stagg-Saulep-Baloiloi Unitech management triangle that needed investigating. The report furthermore vindicated Albert
Schram of any wrongdoing.
Kavanamur (purposely?) failed to mention any of these
specifics. Let’s review another specific
about ‘Koward’ Kavanamur. Since he
became Director General, Kavanamur has presided over a steady decline in PNG’s
universities and should be thoroughly ashamed about that. But wait.
David Kavanamur has no shame. He
can school his kids overseas and escape to Cairns whenever the going gets
rough in Moresby. Whatever disasters he creates for PNG's institutions of higher learning won't, in the end, affect David Kavanamur nor his family. For shame, for shame. Ooops we forgot. 'Koward' Kavanamur has no shame.
Miinister Gore, we suggest you find other sources of advice
how to resolve Unitech Saga than a man who’s advice is as honest as his escapism to Cairns. Why not start
by consulting with the students and staff of Unitech?