POWES PARKOP .... THE EMERGING BILL COSBY OF MOSBI?
Around
the world, corruption fighters committed to bringing down corrupt leaders and
public figures learnt some very valuable lessons this past year. Specifically they learnt how relentlessly
without conscience corrupt leaders lie to protect themselves. After that they learnt how courts of public
opinion in today’s world can break through all those deceptions and reveal the
holy, sweet truth about these scoundrels.
The
case study was that of American television star Bill Cosby. For decades, Cosby was role model to kids
and parents alike through his television personality, that of a kindly and
ethical father figure. Everyone, black
and white, in America, Australia, and other countries where the Cosby show
appeared, grew to deeply admire the man.
This
is not to say the picture was perfect. Now
and again there were some accusations that Bill Cosby had forced himself onto
women in a very unsaintly way. Did
anyone believe? Very few.
Only those with a critical eye or who didn’t accept stories on the face
of the matter until they dug deeper for the truth gave the stories some
attention and didn’t dismiss them outright.
Nearly everyone acted just like blind sheep, believing that Bill Cosby
was a good man, nearly a saint, and always to be believed. They ridiculed the women who came up with
such stories, calling them gold diggers.
Strange, because in one court case, Cosby paid off the accuser to drop
the case. Why would an innocent man do
that? Cosby said it was because he
wanted to end the foolish and baseless accusations. That’s odd.
People who are truly innocent usually roar like a lion and come out
fighting mad when they are accused of a falsehood.
None
of that mattered cuz everyone knew Bill Cosby could do no wrong. Da Man continued to shine throughout the
world, raking in millions by acting, writing and commanding high speaking
fees.
The
illusion was not to last, even for Bill Cosby if the saying is true that “the
truth always comes out in the end.” The
fall of Da Man occurred in a way that shows just how many of us are blind
supporters of leaders we don’t even know personally, and how much mud we would
have on our faces if the real truth could ever come out.
The
story that Bill Cosby might be a sexual predator reappeared in October 2014 when
a black comedian by the name of Hannibal Buress made reference in a cynical way
to Cosby’s secret sexual misbehaviour in one of his comedy standup
routines. This was on youtube video and
it started to go viral as millions of people for the first time learnt about
the allegations.
Bill
Cosby of course, stayed silent for the longest time, saying nothing and
continuing to rake in his millions, still being much admired and filling up
lecture halls by people willing to pay to hear his words of wisdom on how to
live in a saintly way. However many
supporters, especially well known people who had known him for years, spoke out
strongly in his defence and called the allegations false, irresponsible,
defamatory, and downright evil.
Who
was on the side of evil? The issue
became cloudy as new women began to come forward, telling of how Bill Cosby had
come to their apartments, hotel rooms, or homes, and lured them into drinking
something in which he had put drugs in to put them to sleep. They then awoke, usually to find themselves
naked and Cosby still present, acting like nothing had happened and everything
was consensual.
As
the number of women accusing him of rape and sexual aggression came forward,
Cosby himself was forced to speak out in his defence, nearly always through his
lawyer although he has declared at different times, "I don't talk about it" and "people
shouldn't have to go through that and shouldn't answer to innuendos". He created the
image of a now elderly man hurt and confused about so many false allegations
all of a sudden, and not wanting to lower himself by speaking directly about
the stories.
Where
do we stand today with the Bill Cosby allegations? At least 50 women have now come forward and
told their stories of Bill Cosby forcing himself on them sexually. While
some of the incidents supposedly occurred more than 40 years ago, others are
more recent. The police, which had
always declined to investigate any allegations against Cosby, finally were able
to secure the secret testimony he had given years ago at the civil court case
he had been able to have withdrawn by buying off the accuser. In that testimony came the bombshell
revelation in which he admitted under oath, at giving women drugs in order to
bed them, but that it was consensual.
For the first time, from the mouth of Bill Cosby himself, came
information that corresponded exactly with the methods that the 50 women had
said Bill Cosby had used. None of them
knew about the secret testimony.
Suddenly the allegations started being looked at very seriously by
millions of Americans and others around the world. Bill Cosby’s star began to fall.
On 30 December
2015, Cosby was charged with sexual assault and a warrant for his arrest was
issued. Cosby was arraigned and on 24 May 2016, a judge ruled that there was
enough evidence for the case to go to trial. Cosby remains free on $1 million bail until
his trial. Each charge carries a possible 10 year sentence. Trial is scheduled to start on 4 June 2017.
No
public figures are talking out about Bill Cosby’s innocence now.
PART 2, THE POWEST PARKOP STORY
Powes Parkop has
been under suspicion for corruption for some years, although he started out
with his star as high as Bill Cosby’s due to Parkop’s reputation as a human
rights lawyer, helping the poor and downtrodden achieve justice against
powerful accusers.
That reputation
went sour over 15 years ago when Parkop suddenly decided to defend a very wealthy
man, a former World Bank consultant by the name of Hamidan Rad. Rad had served in PNG under employment of
the World Bank, but then Prime Minister Bill Skate, as desperate to save PNG’s
collapsing kina as Peter O’Neill is today, enticed Rad to leave the World Bank
and become the government’s Chief Economic Advisor. One thing led to another, Skate was deposed
as Prime Minister, and Hamidan Rad was arrested and imprisoned along with his
laptop in the then VIP wing of Bomana prison.
Rad called on Parkop
to be his defence lawyer, but said he had no money. Instead he promised to give Parkop his fancy
bright red sports car in which he used to drive all around Moresby. Parkop, who always loved fancy cars,
accepted the deal. Parkop got Rad
released, Rad immediately left PNG, and Powes Parkop now had his very own fancy
red sports car.
Powes Parkop was
riding high, but in the eyes of those who put together what information was
available, it appeared very strongly that Parkop had sold out to money and abandoned
his commitment to justice.
The next major
incident came early in Parkop’s term as MP, running the NCD. There had been stories that Parkop had
signed off on a number of suspicious ‘expenses’ including a K100,000 hire car
bill (see https://pngexposed.files.wordpress.com/2011/08/internal-audit-report.pdf). For those who aren’t familiar with one of the
most commonly used tricks of the corrupt, the idea is to make up a very high
bill to send to the government. It could
be a steep legal bill, a steep rental car hire charge, or whatever. The bill is always for a service those extent
and delivery can easily be faked. Public money is used to pay the bill, and the
recipient kicks back a percentage of the money to the govenrment official who
approved the payment.
All this was kept
very secret until a whistleblower inside NCDC who obviously had a sense of
humour, created a fake audit report cover, but included actual NCDC financial
expenditure reports. At first Parkop
denied that he had done anything wrong but did so in a very odd way. He focused on the faked audit report cover
and said it was totally false.
Suspiciously, he never denied the legitimacy of the expenditures
themselves and even worse, when the actual excessive bill for the hire car
service was revealed and posted on the internet, Parkop refused to address what
exactly that bill was for and why his signature appeared on the bill,
instructing that it be paid.
Powes Parkop has
long been a friend of Justin Tkatchenko.
Tkatchenko is infamous in his own kickback schemes, especially those
involving Bill Skate, Haus Parliament, Jefferey Nape, and Justin’s little
landscaping and grounds maintenance business which earned literally millions
for very little apparent work.
Again, just like
with Bill Cosby’s buildup of public support by his various products and public
pronouncements, Powes Parkop also built up quite a following with his flashy
infrastructure for Moresby and his “get tough on the poor people” attitude that
pleased all the well monied people of Moresby, including the businessmen. No one
seems to notice the outrageous cost of some of these expenses, particularly the
short road in Gordon’s industrial that cost tens of millions of kina. What?
Smells like kickback. But the
blind of Port Moresby continued to salute Powes Parkop just like millions of
Americans saluted Bill Cosby as their hero.
But had decided
that all was not right with Powes Parkop, just like all was not right with Bill
Cosby. Sooner or later the axe was going
to fall.
The ‘axe’ for
Powes Parkop was this week’s revelation that he is estranged from his long time
wife Jean Parkop over a series of extramarital affairs, most notably with his
yoga instructor (see http://www.pngblogs.com/2016/12/from-walk-for-life-to-yoga-and-right.html).
Powes Parkop
performed an admirable Bill Cosby with his replies:
“Powes Parkop
Its amazing how low we willing to go to denigrate our leaders. This article is
so low and trashy I have thrown it where it belongs. In the rubbish bin. But
everyone don't lose focus of the bigger goal and issue Come to the rally at
City Hall. We occupy the streets to get Government to endorse the Strategic
Plan to Counter Gender Based Violence. Top day everyone.”
“Powes Parkop
Michael and all. I have lived my life with transparency and high integrity. I
have never awarded contract in a dubious manner and my personal life should not
be a subject of public scrutiny or debate. I refuse to descant into this low
debate. I have had my last say. Judge me by my action not words.”
Bill
Cosby also feigned hurt and disgust at the allegations leveled against him when
only a few brave women came out with their accusations. Once the number of accusers reached 20, 30,
40 and beyond, Cosby fell silent. A very
similar thing happened with Powes Parkop over the suspicious NCDC
payments. When the allegations were
published on PNG Blogs in several articles.
See one of them here and be
especially sure to read the various comment replies to Parkop’s editorial: http://www.pngblogs.com/2011/09/parkop-respond-to-fake-audit-report.html
Those
who have followed Powes Parkop for years already have a number of examples of
unethical Parkop behaviour that all tie together to paint an overall picture of
Powes Parkop, Man of Deception. Those
who rarely read the newspapers and hardly ever remember anything they read, or
who are easily impressed with glitter infrastructure, have continued to leap to
the side of Powes Parkop, just like the various movie stars in Hollywood leaped
to Bill Cosby’s defence, until more examples came out indicating a common
thread to the secret life of Bill Cosby.
Well,
it has only been a day since the adulterous activities of Powes Parkop came out
and now we have the following reports from a man who accuses Powes Parkop of
stealing his woman too. See the
screenshots below of the story of the man who lost his woman to Powes
Parkop.
After
she left, the man went through his wife’s phone and found that most messages
had been deleted, with this one particular message remaining as proof that his
wife was communicating to Parkop.
Powes Parkop, the Cosby of Mosbi? Let him come forward with a full editorial and explain the relationship between himself and the woman. If he continues to lie, Powes Parkop will trap himself in his lie as proof of the sexual relationship between him and this newest side girl comes out!
A
word to the wise: Better wake up, blind
sheep, and start to smell the stink that comes out of Powes Parkop’s life and
his activities to “help the people of Port Moresby”. There is far more than meets the eye and
only the foolish and gullible will continue to support him, as was true for the
now disgraced Bill Cosby, widely ridiculed in America and believed by hardly
anyone.