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MISAPPROPRIATION OF K3 MILLION NATIONAL STATISTICS OFFICE REFORM FUNDS

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by PAUL GENIA In the first quarterly NSO Reform Steering Committee meeting held in April 2015, Mr Koloma was instructed to table the expenditure report which he never did. However, in the last meeting on the 25th August 2015, he lightly briefed the members that it was expanded on the salaries and wages of the NSO Policy and Coordination Division's staff of around K1.3 million and NSO's Goods and Services of K1.7 million Facts at NSO that may relate to abuse of NSO Reform Funds. NSO's Policy & Coordination Division staffs are fulltime employees with employment file number paid through the normal government salary system by the DPM since 2012. It is 100% not from NSO reform funds. NSO utilities such as telephone, email, fax have been out since 2013. Why is NSO engaging alot local consultants some of which are computer illiterate. ? There is a super consultant, a failed Director for 2011 Census. This particular consultant has no apparent use at all. He has been e

SCAM ALERT II -National Statistician Roko Koloma approved K80,000 for a office door replacement.

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by NSO INSIDER National Statistician Roko Koloma has been engaging a company called Data Fix. This company is brought in by Koloma for - Aircon Maintenance - NSO office partitioning - Providing hire vehicles - Providing printing services.  When asked by his close associates of the company's dominance in NSO, he vigorously maintains that he is following orders from the Minister Charles Abel's office to engage the company. Datafix has grown at NSO since Koloma took office. It is engaged with PNG NID project, NSO recurrent and now the Domestic Health Survey. The Deputy national statistician Henao Kari's company has been engaged to replace a door for K80,000.00. Imagine a door costing K80,000.000.  The Accounts Manager Lohia Micheal is providing the catering services to the DHS project. He has his vehicle engaged in NSO for hire. All these dubious deal are happening before the employees of NSO. They talk about it but the buck stops with Minister Charles A