3 CHEERS TO THE CHEAP "FAKE" KNIGHT - JOHN " THE SNAKE" PUNDARI
A message to the good people of Kompiam-Ambum after learning their beloved MP Hon. John Pundari was knighted for "services to his district."
Your member John Pundari has never been in the Opposition. For 25 years he sat on Government ranks enjoying Ministerial Portfolio after Ministerial Portfolio and turning a blind eye to his own electorate. We have been to Kompiam and seen how terrible it is.
Wabag Member of Parliament Hon. Dr. Lino Tom has given you people service by creating a roadlink in Kompiam Ambum. Something a first time member has accomplished which you people had not seen in 25years maybe more.
Why do you people keep voting in this John Pundari? Is it because there are no other educated Kompiam Ambum men and women out there. Is it because Pundari is mixed race and therefore you people think he is more superior in terms of intellect and skill that's why you people keep voting for him? Stop crying over spilled milk when you people had not one but five chances to get rid of Pundari in the elections but you people keep being ignorant and money hungry.
THE BOTTOM FEEDER
OHN PUNDARI HAS FINALLY EMERGED FROM THE STINKING SWAMP OF CORRUPTION FOR ALL TO SEE AND WHAT A MIGHTY PRESENCE HE HAS CREATED IN THOSE STINKING WATERS! No, the taxi service that recently put Pundari's name out in the social media wasn't corrupt. What the taxi company represents is a conflict of interest that represents the tip of the iceberg in displaying John Pundari's private businesses. Private businesses, here, there, everywhere. However did John Pundari find the time to serve his people? We review here the multiple corruptions of John Pundari, one of the most impressive sets of allegations we have ever come across at Niugini Outlook.
As background, Pundari is a high school dropout whose sly maneuvering
led him to become Speaker of Parliament during the corrupt Bill Skate's
time from 1997-1999. Even his first election to Parliament in 1992 was
the result of a strong competitor's (Cornelius Kakale's) ballot box
being hijacked at from his voters stronghold at Monokam and thrown into
the Ambum River.
Even though during his time as Speaker Pundari acted as though he
couldn't put up with Skate's poor ethics, Pundari bounced around
different political parties over all this time, managing to get sacked
twice by then PM Mekere Morauta for carrying out actions that
destabilised his government.
Pundari is a showman like most successful PNG politicians, with more
than ample puppy tears to shed on demand in front of his electorate. He
puts on an act of being a person of high personal character in ethics,
while scheming behind the scenes to build up his business empire. The
taxi business again is a small indicator of how much time John Pundari
must spend while being paid as a public servant to run his numerous
private businesses, which includes a hotel at 17 mile outside of Port
Moresby that only stays in business because of government funded
meetings. In his Kompiam/Ambum electorate, he has the reputation as a
local Kickback King. He encourages local groups to write project
proposals to submit to him for DSIP funding but only awards the grand
prizes to recipients willing to pay him a behind the scenes kickback
upon receipt of the public funds. He is known to purchase vehicles using
public funds which are then provided with private license tags and
given over to local political cronies, who then use them as formal PMVs.
The list goes on and on (see http://www.pngblogs.com/…/john-pundari-deception-behind-mas…)
and the allegations have been reported in sufficient detail to be
fairly convincing. Pundari's scams to make money for his private pocket
seems to span the available options that corrupt MPs often get involved
with in PNG. This includes owning local businesses that he then gives
contracts to. After he was elected for his first term as MP in 1992, he
started up a building construction company called South Pacific
Builders. This was managed by his maternal uncle (Lucas) and brother
in-law (Teo) to hide the true ownership. Building project contracts
continue to be awarded to South Pacific Builders providing yet another
nice source of hidden income for John Pundari.
More recently Pundari has ventured into earthmoving enterprise and why
not since the people want roads, Peter O'Neill wants roads, and John
Pundari is of course, now a loyal member of the PNC. All road contracts
in his electorate are now given to his road building company managed by
John Yongamen. Apparently it's not enough for John Pundari and cronies
to get public money for their private businesses. Pundari's earthmoving
equipment tend to clock in 10-12 hours (6 am to 6pm) on any given day in
the public service, and the government is given the bill. To give
another example of the incredible waste of taxpayers money in Pundari's
electorate, in 2011 he committed public funds to build two parallel
roads leading to an abandoned rural sawmill station. The station known
as Kaipores happens to be the MP's home place which is passed through on
the existing road to Kompiam. The MP built two extra roads parallel to
the existing one while leaving the original, much older road to remain
poorly maintained in most sections except for the part that passes
through his home territory.
Not too surprisingly, the two roads built in 2012 do not pass through
any population centers or resource base where the road development could
be justified. The roads are however being built on lands belonging to
strong supporters of the MP and is cutting through remaining tribal
reserve forests and burial grounds (see https://mangtariwantok.blogspot.se/…/hon-john-pundari-good-…).
In 2013 he threatened to court the Post Courier for reporting (a rare
investigative report) for alleging that the Minister diverted K5 million
kina to build the Kunap River Bridge to a company that he owned (but
again, masked the ownership through cronies). As far as we know, no
court case ever was followed through as Pundari promised.
Pundari, the mixed race alleged son of a white missionary, preaches
goodness and honesty while behind the scenes performing like the devil
himself in moving as much public money as possible into his personal
pocket. He has the electorate's SDA church corrupted right into his
loyalty club by providing them with construction grants and other
goodies. God knows that Pundari is only following the same strategy for
corrupting the churches that Peter O'Neill employs, with particular
success with the Lutheran Church of Morobe Province.
Recently, the Pious Pundari accused 2 other ministers of corruption.
over a 2016 trip to the international climate change conference in Paris
where he got himself photographed with mega entrepreneur Richard
Branson, founder of Virgin Airways. Pundari accused Minister for
Planning Charles Abel and Minister for Forests Douglas Tomuriesa of
going missing after the first day or two of meetings in Paris and thus
mis-using public money. This is similar to what happened during a
government junket to the United States to pick up the infamous King
James Bible. MPs Loujaya Toni Kousa, SHP governor William Powi and
Parliament Speaker Theo Zurenuoc all went at public expense to the USA
but the only MP seen in any pictures showing the Bible's handover is
Zurenuoc who despite his supposed Christian ways, never exposed the MIA
status of Loujaya and Powi. We certainly have heard the repeated rumours
of Douglas Tomuriesa following a long tradition of Forestry Ministers
(Michael Ogio, Patrick Pruaith, Beldon Namah amongst others) of
completely corrupting themselves handing out logging concessions in
return for under the table payoffs. But maybe in Paris all he and Abel
were doing was sightseeing off public funds?
But back to Pundari, we must not lose sight of John Pundari because his
own shady actions go on and on. His Department of Environment and
Conservation (DEC) changed to the Conservation and Environmental
Protection Agency (CEPA), which is alleged to have been established to
assist a mafia-style network to suck up public money under the
management of former Environment & Conservation Secretary Wari Iamo,
indisputably the most corrupt official that DEC has ever hosted.
Current Secretary Gunther Joku, brother of the infamous West Papuan
Franzalbert Joku who had his own lengthy time milking government funds
into his personal pocket, is collaborator with Dr Wari Iamo, along with
their Australian friend and strategist Andrew Taplin. More than K3
million was budgeted for the DEC to CEPA transition, now how could it
cost this much and where did the money disappear to? Minister Pundari
should know. The money was raised internally by transferring money from
one account to another especially from the funds allocated under
developmental (PIP) budgets, projects undertaken through joint-bilateral
agreements like Kokoda Track Initiatives and Coral Triangle Initiatives
(CTI), and further purged from the recurrent budgets. Minister Pundari
signed off on all this.
This money was systematically (without detection) diverted in 2011 The
money went into the pockets of fly-in fly-out consultancy services from
Australia, including a few PNG friends.
One might say that Pundari is a unknowing dupe of the CEPA scam. The
problem is that Pundari himself continues to make decisions that favour
pollution and foreign companies destruction of the environment and in
return for what?
But the suspicious activities don't stop there. For many years,
residents of Port Moresby visited the Department of Environment and
Conservation Moitaka Wildlife Sanctuary located at the end of Jackson's
International Aiport runways. Then in 2016 a very strange development
occurred with this Sanctuary. A subsidiary of the environmentally
destroying Chinese-Malaysian logging giant Rimbunan Hijau (RH) called
"Dynasty Development Ltd" was given a contract to "redevelop" the
Moitaka Sanctuary land. People smelt a rat immediately with this because
virtually nothing was mentioned about wildlife, it was all about
building office accommodation and "staff home" development There was
mention about a "land swap" as part of the agreement but no details
given. It was noted that Moitaka Sanctuary was under the care of the
Conservation and Environment Protection Authority. Managing Director
Gunther Joku said the Heads of Agreement is consistent with the
Authority’s intention to redevelop the Wildlife Sanctuary land.
Although EM-TV covered the event, the audio track for the news clip has mysteriously 'disappeared' (see https://wn.com/moitaka),
something we have never experienced before with an EM-TV clip. However,
the accompanying written text explains enough of the deal to seriously
doubt that wildlife were at the heart of this decision. The odd
inclusion of Governor-General Michael Ogio, an old friend of RH dating
back to his days as Forestry Minister, in the signing of the agreement
raises eyebrows. All the evidence suggests a classic Port Moresby land
grab similar to the grabbing of another government gazetted and
protected area for tourism, Paga Hill
Kicksbacks, anyone? Gunther Joku and John Pundari don't come out
smelling very nice from this widlife sanctuary destruction escapade! And
of course, we don't call it the Moitaka Wildlife Sanctuary housing
project. Instead it's called the Duran Farm housing project, which
probably does well at not drawing too much attention to what was
destroyed and by what government Ministry.
So much, so much that creates a bad smell around John Pundari,
"protector of PNG's environment". Let's add some other issues to the
mix:
Why has John Pundari as Environment Minister favoured the Chinese Ramu
Nickel mine and its continued pollution into Astrolabe Bay?
What has Pundari favoured the construction of the Pacific Marine
Industrial zone set of 10 Chinese canneries constructed and run by the
Chinese which is certain to destroy the world class scenic Madang
Lagoon?
Why did John Pundari approve two foreign companies [Millionplus
Corporation and Islands Forest Resources] to log in Konoagil area of New
Ireland illegally, with Pundari granting the environmental licenses.
All this spoiling of God's green earth and blue waters for the sake of
Asian companies and environmental destruction. The unanswered question
is what does John Pundari get in exchange for making decisions that are
180 degrees opposite of what one would expect from an Environment and
Conservation Minister?
Richard Branson of course would have known none of John Pundari's wide
ranging and deep corruption, nor disrespect for the environment when he
smilingly posed with Pundari for the photo shot. If he only knew, he
would probably want to vomit.
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