Delilah Gore dances around the tragic truth of her legal corruption


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The news is out, and even MP Gore can’t deny it.  The very Minister who wears the modest meri blouses sees nothing wrong in spending huge amounts of public money putting up LLG presidents in her rural district at the grandest hotel Moresby can provide.   Is this not a form of legal bribery?  Is this not a gross example of the “legal corruption” that an article in PNG blogs talked about just last week and which seems to have spread throughout the government?  Does this Grand Payment not fit the “I don’t have to play by the rules” attitude that Minister Gore displayed to the nation a few months back when she wouldn’t turn off her mobile phone in the airplane taking off from Popondetta?   

Being that the hotel accommodation receipts are now available on the record and presumably Gary Juffa would present the proof if the story is denied, Mrs Gore was trapped.  Still, she did as any good politician will attempt.   She tried to verbally wiggle and squirm around the truth by not refuting the claim itself, but doing side talk and trying to change the subject.


Thus, Mrs Gore began by saying that she wasn’t involved in the Oro Province governorship struggle and that her bringing the 4 LLG presidents to Port Moresby had nothing to do with Juffa and was misinterpreted.

Fine, Mrs Gore, explanation accepted.  But we’re asking about the excessive cost of those hotel rooms!    

4 LLG presidents, 4 nights at the Grand Papua Hotel = K17,313,48
That’s K1082 PER NIGHT PER PERSON for these rural people!


Then Minister Gore went into a lengthy discourse about how poor the Community Development Ministry was, in fact one of the government’s poorest departments.

Hello, Mrs Gore?  We’re not talking about that.  We’re asking about the excessive cost of those hotel rooms!   K1082 PER PERSON PER NIGHT!

Minister Gore then went on to say that the Ministry’s money mostly goes to pay salaries and only a measly 30% is available for operation and program costs.

Hello, Mrs Gore?  We’re not talking about that.  We’re asking about the excessive cost of those hotel rooms!   K1082 PER PERSON PER NIGHT!

Minister Gore then retorted that the money to pay this excessive hotel cost came from the National Gaming Board, which gave the money after she requested help from the Prime Minister.

Now we have it!   Peter O’Neill, the Gaming Minister, gave K300,000 from pokies and horse racing to put up these 4 LLG presidents in the Grand Papua.   

At least the puzzle pieces now fit together.  It’s all about frivolous use of money that most people have to work very hard to earn.   From the pokies to the Prime Minister to Delilah Gore to the Grand Papua to foreign owned bank accounts.    But it all started from some poor Papua New Guinean’s hard work.

Mrs Gore clearly sees nothing wrong with her being a public servant and frivolously using money from whatever source to supposedly fund “community development”.  That IS her job, is it not?    

Mrs Gore insists that staying at the Grand Papua assisted in Community Development, with the remark “It is very unfortunate that this payment has surfaced at the time when Oro politicians are experiencing differences.  However, as far as the department is concerned, the records are in order, the payment is proper, and the money went to fund activities directly under the mandate for the Ministry for Community Development, Youth and Religion.”

This lady simply doesn’t get it.  Either she’s a total pinhead or she’s ethically corrupted.  

It is not ethically right to waste money that is to be used for government services, fullstop.
It borders on the immoral to use money like this when Mrs Gore herself knows how most people lives in her constituency.

There is nothing more corrupting than to put rural politicians into the best hotel in PNG as if the average white person could even afford such a place.   As if most companies would even put their employees in such a place!    It totally distorts the realities for Mrs Gore to put 4 rural politicians in such a place, considering the wide range of alternative, perfectly comfortable, and far cheaper accommodation available in Port Moresby.

What is going to happen to the expectations of these 4 rural LLG presidents now?   For a start, they’ll probably never again accept guest house accommodation.  From now on, it’s Grand Papua all the way and they’ll probably learn how to find the money necessary to support such a rich lifestyle.    One wonders what else Minister Gore gave them to make their trip to Moresby comfortable…. All perfectly legal and paid for by the pokies owners.

K17,000 could have bought a lot of simple needed supplies and equipment for communities in her constituency.   It could have done so much good.  Instead, Mrs Gore sees nothing wrong with the money going to a foreign hotel that thrives on blood money and corrupting LLG presidents in the process.

We know, we know, Mrs Gore.   We have no right to question you, we are only taxpaying citizens of this country.  As you say,  “Do you know who I am?”    In other words, Mrs Gore deeply believes that as a government service she should not be held accountable by the people.

Wrong, Mrs Gore.  Dead, dead wrong.

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One wonders why Minister Gore thought spending K17,000 for 4 night’s lodging in PNG fanciest hotel was a wiser decision than if she had spent the K17,000 on something like community development books that served more than 4 LLGs in Oro.  After all, she is not an Oro Province Minister, she is a national minister.  She needs to think about the whole country, not just where she will get her votes next election.  Shame on you, Minister Deliah Gore.  Shame, shame, shame!

Unhappy Citizen

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