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National Reports Senior public servants in the province and their cronies, in collusion with the banks, helped themselves to about K5 million of the total K18 million relief funds between 2007 and 2009, the auditor-general said in the report to the manager of the state-established Oro Restoration Authority, Sinai Brown. As a result, there were no major capital works and significant maintenance to restore services and infrastructure damaged by the cyclone in November 2007. Assistant auditor-general Gordon Kega, who was in charge of the investigation, recommended that all signi-ficant payments to individuals should be checked and individuals prosecuted for defrauding the state. The 11-page report to Brown, a copy of which was made available to The National, said 87 individuals were paid a total of K4,610,147 “for unknown services”. Neither Brown nor Northern administration officials could be contacted to comment on the report. The auditor-general’s office concluded that no proper financi

National Reports Senior public servants in the province and their cronies, in collusion with the banks, helped themselves to about K5 million of the total K18 million relief funds between 2007 and 2009, the auditor-general said in the report to the manager of the state-established Oro Restoration Authority, Sinai Brown. As a result, there were no major capital works and significant maintenance to restore services and infrastructure damaged by the cyclone in November 2007. Assistant auditor-general Gordon Kega, who was in charge of the investigation, recommended that all signi-ficant payments to individuals should be checked and individuals prosecuted for defrauding the state. The 11-page report to Brown, a copy of which was made available to The National, said 87 individuals were paid a total of K4,610,147 “for unknown services”. Neither Brown nor Northern administration officials could be contacted to comment on the report. The auditor-general’s office concluded that no proper financi

    PNG EXPOSED   Former Solicitor General, Zachary Gelu, should never be employed again in a senior position in the public service. This is the stark recommendation from the Commission of Inquiry into the Department of Finance after it found Gelu implicated in many of the scams in which a total of K780 million was stolen from the people of PNG between 2000 and 2006. The particular scam that prompted the Commission’s recommendation involved the former Administrator of the Southern Highlands, Tau Liu. In 1999 Liu claimed over K220,000 in damages from the State for alleged wrongful dismissal although in fact he had in fact only been suspended from duty, not terminated. In February 2003, then Solicitor General, Zachary Gelu, agreed to the claim and signed a deed of release in the sum of K305,410.61 (which included more that K70,000 in interest payments). The claim was approved by Gelu even though the State had initially filed a defense end had several good g

    PNG EXPOSED   Former Solicitor General, Zachary Gelu, should never be employed again in a senior position in the public service. This is the stark recommendation from the Commission of Inquiry into the Department of Finance after it found Gelu implicated in many of the scams in which a total of K780 million was stolen from the people of PNG between 2000 and 2006. The particular scam that prompted the Commission’s recommendation involved the former Administrator of the Southern Highlands, Tau Liu. In 1999 Liu claimed over K220,000 in damages from the State for alleged wrongful dismissal although in fact he had in fact only been suspended from duty, not terminated. In February 2003, then Solicitor General, Zachary Gelu, agreed to the claim and signed a deed of release in the sum of K305,410.61 (which included more that K70,000 in interest payments). The claim was approved by Gelu even though the State had initially filed a defense end had s

PEKU PILIMBO ONE of the richest province in Papua New Guinea is the Southern Highlands. It is a province that is meeting the oil supplies to several countries in the world after the Napanapa refinery was built. The province also boasts of having natural gas supplies after the recent discovery at Juha and Angore as well as others in the Western and Gulf provinces. The province will bring in billions of kina once production starts. But at the moment it is one of the poorest provinces when you look at the delivery of basic government services. There are very few sealed roads, bridges, hospitals, doctors, nurses, teachers, agriculture advisers, vocational teachers, missionaries, and the list goes on. The new LNG project will need good roads, communication, electricity, hospitals with doctors and other necessary facilities that will enable the successful operation. The country earns much of its revenue from exports of all the oil that is produced from the province. The amount o