ANALYSIS ON GEOFFREY VAKI’S CONVICTION - Part 2
Bire Kimisopa current Member of Goroka Open, former Minister of Internal Security (Police) and Minister of Justice 2006-2007 by BRYAN KRAMER This is Part 2 of a 5 part series of articles providing an insight into recent National Court’s conviction of the former Commissioner of Police Geoffrey Vaki on two counts of contempt charges for failing to enforce the Warrant of Arrest issued against the Prime Minister Peter O’Neill. Before reading over this article I would first suggest reading Part 1 if you haven’t already done so. Part 1 discussed the background issues that lead to the District Court issuing the warrant and the efforts by Police to effect the Prime Minister’s arrest on charges of Official Corruption in relation to alleged fraudulent payments of K71.8 million to Paraka Lawyers. The article concluded at the point where the Prime Minister and Minister of Finance James Marape issued instructions to their lawyers to secure a stay (stop) order against Police from effecti