BRYAN KRAMER ARRESTED ON "CONSPIRACY TO KILL" 'CHARGE'

By FRANKLIN KOLMA - POST COURIER

PRIVATE businessman and administrator of social media entity "PNG News", Bryan Kramer, was arrested yesterday afternoon in Port Moresby on allegations of conspiracy to kill.

This was confirmed by NCD Metropolitan Superintendent Andy Bawa yesterday after being contacted by the Post-Courier about the controversial arrest that has since gone viral on social media.

Supt Bawa said Mr Kramer was arrested on allegations of conspiracy to commit murder. Supt Bawa said he had only been made aware of the arrest after being contacted by the media, adding that the arrest was prompted by a complaint laid by Madang MP Nixon Duban.

The allegations were that Mr Kramer had planned at some point in time to cause the death of Mr Duban, who is Petroleum and Energy Minister in the Peter O’Neill-led Government.

Supt Bawa said the allegations were serious and that questioning and further investigations would have to be made before a statement could be released.

In a text message sent before he was cut off from communications, Mr Kramer had told members of his social media group to publish that he was confident any charges or complaints made against him were all on unreasonable grounds that had no legal standing and were only attempts to put pressure on him to deter his social media work.

The arrest was made at Port Moresby’s Ela Beach Brasserie at 2pm yesterday.

Patrons of the restaurant who witnessed the arrest said uniformed officers arrived at the hotel in two vehicles and made the arrest. The arrest comes straight after Mr Kramer was accused at the weekend of publishing news about the Prime Minister’s referral to a tribunal on social media prematurely.

Prior to his arrest, Mr Kramer made it clear that his publications on social media were only made after a press release from the Public Prosecutor was issued on Friday last week.

Mr Kramer and Mr Duban have contested the Madang Open seat in 2012, the result of which Mr Kramer disputed, leading to last year’s by-election.

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NOTE: Bryan Kramer was approached inside the Ela Beach Brasserie restaurant and taken away by police, who according to a police source are members of the 'Dog Unit', at approximately 12.30 pm (not 2 pm as reported by the Post Courier). An eyewitness saw Bryan being taken away by police in a vehicle (licence plate number provided) which could belong to Bryan's family company. The vehicle with Bryan and police was accompanied by police in another vehicle. A source said "He was brought down to Boroko Police Station by police attached with Nixon Duban."

It looks like BK was granted bail late last night (by a magistrate or possibly by a National Court Judge) after police denied him bail and he was released at midnight. We think that BK should ask police what have they done to Captain James Pima's complaint against Nixon Duban for assaulting him at the helipad in total breach of the civil aviation laws, in Alotau in 2012. It was alleged by the Opposition in 2013 that investigations into the incident were not progressed (at the time) because Duban used his position as an MP and later as Police Minister to pervert the course of justice.

Capt Pima, a helicopter pilot and part owner of Helu Solutions Ltd who was allegedly "bashed up" by Duban laid a complaint with CASA, NAC and the RPNGC and, according to Albert Tagua, followed up on his complaint several times however the authorities took little action. After the issue was raised again in 2013, Albert Tagua also advised "Punching a Pilot on duty amounts to Hijack after 911 and carries serious penalty."
NIXON DUBAN - The Godfather?

An article by Malum Nalu about the alleged incident was published in the National on July 30th, 2012 however Nixon Duban was not identified in that article. There cannot be two sets of laws for people. We believe that Nixon Duban should have already been disqualified as a member of parliament anyway. He is still facing criminal charges after being "found guilty of two grounds of bribery and undue influence committed in relation to 2012 National Elections" by the National Court of Disputed Returns on the 3rd of June 2013!

We will post more later about Nixon Duban, who many people are aware is Bryan Kramer's political enemy. We firmly believe that the complaint against Bryan Kramer, (initially made months ago & reported on in July this year) is politically motivated, malicious, false and also vexatious. We believe that Nixon Duban should get ready to be sued by BK for defamation and false accusation and furthermore he should be prepared to vacate the Madang Open seat in the very near future.

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