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by MICHAEL JOSEPH PASSINGAN The recent and continuing actions by Police Commissioner Gari Baki have got deeper intentions than what appears to the public. Gari Baki is part of, and executing a conspiracy to completely set Peter O’Neill free from all corruption charges relating to the Paul Paraka Lawyers payments, LR Group-PNG Power Generators Deal, K3 Billion UBS Oil Search Deal etc and many other complaints of frauds that is currently investigated by the National Fraud And Anti-Corruption Directorate. If you have been watching closely, Peter O’Neill is running out of defences. He knows that you don’t have to benefit financially from the fraud to be guilty of the crime (Paul Tiensten being the example). He latest lowest point was when he said words “mi paulim meri blong ol na ol laik karabusim mi oh”, a reflection of a primitive mentality of Wiru Pangia. Peter O’Neill’s popularity is evaporating very fast. Prominent citizens including the two former Prime Ministers, Sir Mekere

by GOVERNMENT INSIDER Isaac Lupari has recently become the Chairman of Public Debt Committee,(PDC), their core function is to manage the cashflow of the country. PDC is made up of Treasury Management(Chairman), Finance Management and Bank of PNG. PM's Dept is not suppose to interfere with the operation of Treasury management. The responsibilities to raise revenue and expenditure lies with the treasury IRC, Customs and Finance according to the constitutional functions of these institutions. Never in the history of this country a Chief Secretary becomes the Chairman and manipulate the cash flow management of the country, that means, Isaac Lupari is a superfluous who is hell bent on destroying  the core functions of these constitutional institutions and politically compromise the prudential fiscal management and governance of established government institutions. Does this show that the Governor of the Central Bank, Secretaries for Treasury and Finance and their Management t

by MICHAEL JOSEPH PASSINGAN Peter O’Neill remains the King of Lies. The Prince of Lies is his teaboy Isaac Lupari. Data released this month by the Bank of Papua New Guinea shows their statements about the price PNG receives for its LNG are completely untrue. Compare these statements with the truth as revealed by the central bank in the accompanying graph: "The drop in the oil price will not affect LNG revenues as we have forward contracts in place that are set at fixed pricing formula" - Peter O’Neill, January, 2015.” “[Polye claims] that Papua New Guinea will receive substantially less income from LNG sales and this is simply not true. PNG LNG exports and prices are predominantly locked into long-term forward sales contracts. In simple terms this means that PNG will receive the same price for LNG.” Isaac Lupari, December 2014. O’Neill and Lupari have told so many lies they no longer know what truth is. Their constant lying brings the Office of the Prime Mini

by JACOB YAMBU AS LONG AS ISAAC LUPARI IS CHIEF SECRETARY, PAUL PARAKA WILL BE PAID, THEY GO WAY BACK, JAMES MARAPE CAN BE A LOUD MOUTH AS LONG AS HE WANTS, BUT BY GETTING ISAAC LUPARI IN AS CHIEF SECRETARY PARAKA HAS ALREADY ACHIEVED WHAT HE SET TO ATTAIN, MARAPE IS JUST A POLITICAL FIGURE HEAD, HE CANT BE EVERYWHERE ALL THE TIME, BY HOOK OR CROOK, WHEN YOU HAVE A CROOK SITTING IN AS CHIEF SECRETARY HE WILL HAVE HIS WAY. Prime Minister Peter O’Neill likes to talk tough about cracking down on corruption but his own Chief Secretary was recommended for prosecution in the Finance Department Commission of Inquiry report for fraudulently claiming K3.7 million as part of the Paraka Scams which have cost PNG hundreds of million… Former Ambassador to the European Union, Departmental Head and now Chief Secretary, Isaac Lupari stole K3.7 million from the people of PNG through false claims for breach of contract according to the findings of the Commission of Inquiry into the Fina

by MICHAEL PASSINGAN   More than K3 billion a year is likely being stolen and wasted by Prime Minister Peter O’Neill, his politicians, and their public service and private sector cronies. Over the five-year life of the O’Neill regime, they have likely stolen or wasted more than K15 billion. These estimates are based on figures made public by the Prime Minister himself, Works Minister Francis Awesa and the head of Task Force Sweep, Sam Koim. They demonstrate the enormous cost to the nation and the people of Papua New Guinea of O’Neill’s corruption and incompetence. They show that the rate of theft and other forms of corruption and waste under Peter O’Neill continues to increase. If O’Neill and his cronies had not stolen or misused K15 billion, Papua New Guinea would not be suffering from the current economic crisis. If the O’Neill regime had acted honestly, responsibly and competently, the decline in national development and service delivery could have been reversed. Instead, there h

PNG Government To Investigate Lawyers’  Undercover video on Australian TV alleges bribery PORT MORESBY, Papua New Guinea (The National, June 26, 2015) – The Government will set up a high-powered team to investigate comments by two senior lawyers on ways that suspect funds could be transferred to Australia to bribe Papua New Guinean politicians. It will consist of senior officials from the Bank of PNG, the Justice Department, the Prime Minister’s Department, the Immigration Department, the police and the National Executive Council. Announcing this yesterday, Prime Minister’s Chief of Staff Isaac Lupari said a number of serious claims had been aired on television that related to statements by Greg Sheppard and Harvey Maladina to an undercover operative who filmed the conversations secretly. "The video has since gone viral on social media leading to rumours and innuendo," he said and indicated that the investigation would begin soon. He also said that all government cases be