MPS FAR AND WIDE SHOW SUDDEN INTEREST IN UNITECH STUDENTS SATURDAY, 28 MAY

NIUGINI OUTLOOK
We have been told that at least 5 current and past MPs today visited Unitech to convince the students of this or that. They included Luther Wenge, Bob Dadae, Ross Seymour, Garry Juffa, and Sam Basil. In a sense one would think this was a political effort to attract the students over to their side, but at least we can say that at long last Peter O'Neill's puppets had an effective counterbalance, allowing the students to hear all sides of the issue. It is through such information sharing, which Peter O'Neill has always been allergic too, that we come to know the truth as best as we can.
Bob Dadae strongly took the Prime Minister's side, probably hoping for presents later on the way he used to defend Papa Somare's corruption. Bob gained some fame in 2007 during the Julian Moti scandal of the Somare Government, which pointed to Michael Somare himself as the main lawbreaker who let Moti, then a fugitive from Australian justice, to sneak into PNG on a PNGDF military plane. When a Commission of Inquiry of the Defence Force activities pointed too embarassingly to the PM himself, as well as various senior bureaucrats and a number of soldiers. Dade was put in charge of creating a coverup. He said the inquiry was “wrongly headed” by Supreme Court Justice Gibbs Salika, had overstepped its jurisdiction and was biased. He said none of the report’s findings would be accepted by himself as Defence Minister and thus none of its recommendations would be implemented.
When Dadae was asked to comment if his decision meant there were two laws in PNG - one for ordinary Papua New Guineans and one for its leaders - he refused to comment.
Bob Dadae's history is worth factoring in to why he showed up at Unitech today.
As for the other present MPs: Ross Semour, a National Alliance man, also wanted the students to return back to class, but didn't push as strong as Dadae. Former MP and Morobe Governor Luther Wenge gave a long forceful speech that for all practical purposes, urged the students to stick with the boycott and not give into O'Neill goon pressure.
Sam Basil and Gary Juffa also urged the boycott to continue.
Of course hearing both sides of a story always makes a decision more complicated and our students sadly have nearly all come through a government education system that almost bends backwards in keeping all thinking caps in a permanent turn off position. That's why it is so tempting for uni students to follow rather than thank for themselves, and because they're not even taught the skills of how to assess the credibility and genuineness of the leaders that beckon, they get into trouble all the time, particularly when electing SRC leaders. Thus it is Saturday afternoon and Unitech students find themselves in a real pickle. Do they follow these guys or do they follow those guys? Do they follow their SRC leader or do they follow their provincial leaders?
We have a suggestion for our Unitech students, who just completed a spectacular awareness campaign across much of the country. Don't get yourself bogged down thinking of who to follow. Instead, think of what to follow. We suggest that you follow your conscience, realize that you have now developed great skills at public speaking and awareness spreading, and spend all of next week educating the people of Lae, from Monday through Friday straight. While you're at it, pressure your always reluctant SRC President David Kelma to work strongly with the UPNG, UOG, UNRE, and Lae Polytech SRC presidents to keep the coalition strong and no one give in to government intimidation. Do you really want to end the boycott with the government in charge whose allies beat up your PMV drivers, shoots out the back glass of your PMV window, or tries to intimidate you by following you in a sinister way for many kilometres down the highlands highway?

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