National Broadcasting Commission in crises and Memafu Kapera displays signs of a crook MD.



After the death of former NBC Board Chairman the late Cain Wosae, who was once a Department of Finance Deputy Secretary, the National Government appointed ex parliamentarian and Imbongu MP, Timothy Tala as the new NBC Board Chairman.

Tala is a graduate Communications Engineer from the University of Technology in Lae in 1996. He served one term as a member of Parliament from 1997 to 2002.
It took some months for Tala to take up his post after the announcement by the government as Memafu Kapera, had stalled all the appointment requirements and protocols for the new chairman to get into office.

Memafu had enjoyed operating as a one man show at the NBC after the passing of Wosae without a fully functional board and a deputy managing director.
He did not accept anyone to sit above or next to him and take orders from. To him there is no real need for a Board and a Deputy Managing Director at the NBC as he has this foolish notion that he had all things covered by himself.

Despite Memafu Kapera’s countless attempts to block Tala’s appointment, the latter took it upon himself to go directly to the Prime Minister to be given the approval to assume chairmanship without anymore interference and blockings by Kapera.

But after his swearing in as the new NBC Board Chairman, a new dilemma unfolded. Timothy Tala had difficulty trying to settle in at NBC 5 mile to conduct Board meetings and take care of other official Board matters. The NBC Board does not have an office of its own.
Memafu Kapera and his puppet management had put up another road block. They were in control of the money and made it impossible for Tala and the rest of the board members to source any funding from NBC Finance to conduct the NBC Board’s business.

The rift started because Memafu Kapera wanted Tala and the Board to run along with his shallow level of thinking and decision making to manage the NBC however, the Board had better superior alternatives and plans to drive the highly technical broadcasting organization forward such as, the drafting and enactment of the revised NBC Broadcasting Act of 1973 and the inception of a major Business Plan for the organization.

The NBC was lacking in many technical areas amidst the ever changing technology in the broadcasting world and the Board was keen in embarking on new developments as well as changing the mindset of the management to think out of the box.

The composition of the NBC Board is a fairly balanced one. Chairman Timothy Tala as mentioned aforesaid has a university degree in Communications Engineering.
Board Lady Esther Igo from Smain village Wewak East Sepik, is a graduate economist from Bath University in the UK who specializes in strategic management and policy. She has a sound background knowledge in business and finance, boosted with her wealth of practical experience in the private sector with some major established corporations in PNG and abroad.

Deputy Chairman Paul Reptario is an old hand at the NBC. The West Sepik man was former NBC Human Resource Manager and also NBC Chairman after his retirement under the management of Joseph Ealedona.

The other Board members are Jimmy Veneo from Central, also a former NBC Manager and Corporate Secretary in the Ealedona regime, and now a tutor in Journalism at the University of Papua New Guinea.
Then there is the Minister’s choice to the Board Mr Noruka from Bougainville who is a devout Catholic and small businessman.

What else can Memafu Kapera long for in a Board if he was only using his head other than his personal greed and vested interest. Here you have a very well articulated professional Board who can turn things around for the organization with their contributions and vast experience.
The Restructure exercise was something the Board wanted to be put on hold until after the Communication Minister presented to parliament the “NBC White Paper”, the first of its kind for the NBC in 40 years by any Communications Minister.

Given the parliament’s blessing the incorporated revised NBC Broadcasting Act will provide the impetus and leeway for greater financial freedom for the NBC to operate commercially on a broader scale to generate its own revenue and be self sustaining like other fully fledged corporate entities of the government.

The NBC MD and his conservative narrow minded puppet directors were not on the same page as the new Board by displaying their own little insecurities, they were not prepared to accept new challenges and changes and being told what to do.

Instead they viewed the Board as a threat rather than a partner to work with to deliver effective broadcasting services in radio and television to the government and people of Papua New Guinea.
The MD failed miserably to implement all the Board’s resolutions for the first six months in 2014 and the Prime Minister was equally concerned. Peter O’Neil asked for a submission from the NBC Board through the Communications Minister to be delivered to the NEC in 2014 to have Memafu Kapera’s employment contract terminated for poor performance.

That submission is probably discarded and lay forgotten somewhere in Buka under a coconut grove. Only the Minister knows where it is today as it had never reached the NEC to date.
To frustrate the Board’s efforts and also break up the quorum of the board, Memafu Kapera, as the NBC chief accounting officer, did not sign honorarium payments, meeting allowances and other stipends for Tala and the Board members.
The Board members had to fork out money from their own pockets to meet all their expenses including meals, hotel accommodation, car hire and fuel for vehicles of Board members who live in Port Moresby.
Memafu Kapera deliberately made life very difficult for the Board Members because he feared the new Board Chairman will only be depriving him of the absolute freedom he had been enjoying as the sole decision maker and a one man rule at the NBC.
That is why he had also never made any real attempts to advertise the position of a Deputy Managing Director for the NBC for almost four years he had been MD.
Kapera had been operating as the Managing Director, the Deputy Managing Director and the Board Chairman all this time, making major policy and financial decisions without the Board’s approval.
Forget the Communications Minister as he is only regarded as a small boy and rubber stamp for Memafu Kapera.

Memafu Kapera had tactically mesmerized and bewitched the Minister it seems, and had him under control courtesy of the NBC cheque book but at the expense of the PNG Government and tax payers.
Kapera had also secretly been making deals too with consultants, contractors and investors without due diligence checks etc to engage their services at the NBC as well as lease NBC Land and assets in the absence of proper legal requirements, so logically he did NOT want any interference from any opposition, in this case the NBC Board to question what he is up to.
(On that note we should asked what happened to the Alotau deal with Digicel, Memafu Kapera and Robin Vuvut?)

However, the legitimate Board Chairman Timothy Tala was going to changed all that when he requested at one of the meetings with the MD and his corrupt management that he wanted a full report on the financial expenditure of the NBC in the last three years.
The Board wanted to see all the income and expense ledgers but Memafu Kapera would NOT allow the Board any access to all that information such as the excessive rentals of the directors that we disclosed here on social media.
Previously Memafu Kapera had terminated and suspended staff from NBC Finance division who had “divulged” confidential information on how funds were being spent and squandered carelessly by his management.

This made it extremely hard by the Board to independently obtain any financial data and reports from staff who work at the NBC Finance office. Everything was concealed at the direction of the MD.
In frustration over the lack of response and corporation he was getting from Memafu Kapera and the NBC Management , Timothy Tala did not make it secret anymore that he was hell bent now on conducting a full scale investigation into alleged gross financial abuse and mismanagement by Memafu Kapera and his executives.

In the meantime, Tala met with the rest of the Board members in a meeting and collectively they came up with a Board decision to request through the MD a funding of K20,000 kina to enable them to carry out their mandated responsibilities and obligations effectively.
The Board members have a sworn affidavit to attest to the argument and police charges that the Chairman and his Deputy did not act alone with the wrong intentions to swindle the K20,000 kina belonging to the NBC.

Memafu Kapera was panic stricken upon receipt of the Board’s letter of request for funds, thus suspecting that the Board will use the money to investigate him and his management and therefore fabricated a big fat lie.
He laid a complaint with police alleging that the new NBC Board Chairman, Timothy had abused his position just weeks after settling into office by using threats to defraud the NBC of K20,000 kina.
This is the factual background on what caused the logger head between the NBC Board and Management when Memafu Kapera falsely cried wolf with the matter ending up in the courts.
The Chairman and his deputy Paul Reptario were then arrested and locked up in the cell by the police.

Reptario was detained briefly and released from the lock up soon after because he had a medical condition. Tala spent a few nights in police custody over the false report by Memafu Kapera.
He appeared in the district committal court for mention and the matter was referred up to the National Court. He is currently out on a K2,000 kina court bail awaiting his next court appearance at the end of this month.

Kapera did not stop there, he went ahead and alerted all the media houses in town to report on the arrest and detention of the new NBC Board Chairman Timothy Tala.
This was a very cheap shot and a vain less psychological attempt by Kapera to further humiliate and demoralise Tala and intimidate the remaining NBC Board members into submission.
The conviction of Tala was aimed also at letting the Communication’s Minister and the Prime Minister, as well as the rest of the NEC realize that they had made a bad decision to appoint a corrupt Chairman to the NBC Board.
This highly unstable psychopath moron uses lies, fear, intimidation and threats to suppress those who threaten his space and position. In reality he is nothing but a fat sluggish invertebrate maggot with lots of H2O in his head.

Deputy NBC Board Chairman, Paul Reptario’s charge on the intent to steal K20,000 kina from the NBC has been dismissed by the District Court due to insufficient evidence.
Timothy Tala’s case on the same matter was being referred up from the District Court to the National Court last month for trial in order to cross examine witnesses etc to testify if Tala actually took the money by abusing his position, something which in reality never occurred at all!
It seemed the eventual outcome will be like Paul Reptario’s judgement, the matter will no doubt be dismissed by the National Court as police prosecutors have not yet come up with any factual evidence to convict Timothy Tala further for allegedly stealing K20,000 kina belonging to the NBC, as claimed by Memafu Kapera.

Memafu Kapera is now fully aware that the Chairman’s case will be thrown out by the Judge, so in the last two weeks he had to scheme up very quickly another plan to stop Timothy Tala from coming back into the NBC to investigate him and his puppet management.
So the plot to terminate the current Board was hatched and cooked up by Memafu Kapera. The ignorant Minister Jimmy Miringtoro has been severely brainwashed to such extent by Memafu to get rid of the Board Chairman for good.

Two weeks ago the Minister delivered a letter to the NBC Chairman Timothy Tala, penned by the NBC Legal Officer advising him that he will be terminated because he had NOT been effectively performing his responsibilities for several months.
Wait a minute here, you prosecute a guy based on a fabricated lie and while, he is waiting for the courts to clear his name before resuming office –these assholes for life come up with an unbelievable excuse that the Chairman alongside the Board has NOT conducted any Board meetings to deal with important matters arising at the NBC so he will have to be terminated.
Now that bloody hell sucks big time Jimmy Miringtoro and Memafu Kapera!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Yu tupla orait or wire lus?

Now you can all see the insanity and stupidity that goes on over here at the NBC headquarters at Wonga Estate under a corrupt and weak leadership.
Last but not the least, the unfair treatment Memafu Kapera dished out to the Board Chairman Timothy Tala, and the entire ordeal and humiliation he had to endure shall be returned to Memafu in a hundred fold by Tala.

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