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IS the Task Force Sweep a police force established under the Constitution? The only established police force by the Constitution is the Royal Papua New Guinea Constabulary (RPNGC). As a former detective and provincial commander and now a lawyer, I am qualified to make this statement. In previous cases, the former Mataguan Association established a police force in East New Britain and those associated with the organisation were charged with establishing an illegal police force. The practice is that no police constable is subjected to any direction from any member of the RPNGC including the police commissioner, in any investigation. Likewise, the investigating officer who is the arresting officer is not subjected to any direction by anyone, including the police commissioner. Here we have a civilian lawyer performing the task of a police constable. He is not sworn in as a member of the RPNGC and does not have the po­wer to arrest or investigate any crime. The only power of arrest vested i

IS the Task Force Sweep a police force established under the Constitution? The only established police force by the Constitution is the Royal Papua New Guinea Constabulary (RPNGC). As a former detective and provincial commander and now a lawyer, I am qualified to make this statement. In previous cases, the former Mataguan Association established a police force in East New Britain and those associated with the organisation were charged with establishing an illegal police force. The practice is that no police constable is subjected to any direction from any member of the RPNGC including the police commissioner, in any investigation. Likewise, the investigating officer who is the arresting officer is not subjected to any direction by anyone, including the police commissioner. Here we have a civilian lawyer performing the task of a police constable. He is not sworn in as a member of the RPNGC and does not have the po­wer to arrest or investigate any crime. The only power of arrest vested

Moses Maladina and Jimmy Maladina together with Jefferey Nape are all complicit in the destruction of our PNG Constitution....they strategised about the destruction of our laws and have been committing consecutive contemptuous actions ever since. The Maladina family have been receiving "golden handshakes" in terms of the jobs for the boys since August 2011 - Check the overseas appointments list. Merit Schmerit! Why has Jimmy Maladina re-emerged after stealing millions from our people (NASFUND) to assist in the destruction of our laws together with his brother Moses and the kanaka Speaker? Nape has used Parliament coffers like an inheritance since his appointment nearly 9 years ago now. We're seeing lots of smoke people because there are various fires. And we will all be burnt at the stake as a result! Not the crooks! What exactly is the factual error in the memo? Moses Maladina was appointed by Somare - YES, but so was Speaker Jefferey Nape who dismissed Somare as a Memb

Moses Maladina and Jimmy Maladina together with Jefferey Nape are all complicit in the destruction of our PNG Constitution....they strategised about the destruction of our laws and have been committing consecutive contemptuous actions ever since. The Maladina family have been receiving "golden handshakes" in terms of the jobs for the boys since August 2011 - Check the overseas appointments list. Merit Schmerit! Why has Jimmy Maladina re-emerged after stealing millions from our people (NASFUND) to assist in the destruction of our laws together with his brother Moses and the kanaka Speaker? Nape has used Parliament coffers like an inheritance since his appointment nearly 9 years ago now. We're seeing lots of smoke people because there are various fires. And we will all be burnt at the stake as a result! Not the crooks! What exactly is the factual error in the memo? Moses Maladina was appointed by Somare - YES, but so was Speaker Jefferey Nape who dismissed Somare as

PNG Exposed Blog A memo, purportedly signed by Justice Kirriwom and published on PNGExposed blog 13th March 2012, if genuine, shows extreme bias exists in certain parts of the judiciary against the government of Peter O’Neill. All judges are supposed to be political impartial but the memo shows it may be hard for the current government to get a fair hearing in the various cases now before the courts over its removal of the previous Somare regime. There are also a number of worrying factual errors in the memo. For example, the memo says that Prime Minister  O’Neill has put his own people on the mercy committee so that if he or Namah get charged with contempt they will be pardoned. This would seem to be untrue as the Chairman of the mercy committee is Moses Maladina and he has been the chairman since 2005 when Michael Somare put him there. The memo also suggests that judges should be above the law and due process. The memo says the Chief Justice should not stand trial on alle

PNG Exposed Blog A memo, purportedly signed by Justice Kirriwom and published on PNGExposed blog 13th March 2012, if genuine, shows extreme bias exists in certain parts of the judiciary against the government of Peter O’Neill. All judges are supposed to be political impartial but the memo shows it may be hard for the current government to get a fair hearing in the various cases now before the courts over its removal of the previous Somare regime. There are also a number of worrying factual errors in the memo. For example, the memo says that Prime Minister  O’Neill has put his own people on the mercy committee so that if he or Namah get charged with contempt they will be pardoned. This would seem to be untrue as the Chairman of the mercy committee is Moses Maladina and he has been the chairman since 2005 when Michael Somare put him there. The memo also suggests that judges should be above the law and due process. The memo says the Chief Justice should not stand trial

BOB CARR has sparked a diplomatic crisis in his first days as Minister for Foreign Affairs after Papua New Guinea dressed down Australia's top envoy in the country over his threat of sanctions. The Gillard government was scrambling yesterday to contain the fallout after its star recruit warned any delay to midyear elections in PNG would leave Australia ''no alternative but to organise the world to condemn and isolate Papua New Guinea''. The comments were met with dismay in Port Moresby. The PNG Foreign Minister, Ano Pala, took the rare and serious step of calling in the acting Australian high commissioner, Margaret Adamson, to complain about the threat. Senator Carr made the comments in a Wednesday night interview with long-time friend and former Labor numbers man Graham Richardson. He warned any delay to the elections after months of political turmoil would be a ''shocking model'' in the Pacific. ''We'd be in a position of having to cons

BOB CARR has sparked a diplomatic crisis in his first days as Minister for Foreign Affairs after Papua New Guinea dressed down Australia's top envoy in the country over his threat of sanctions. The Gillard government was scrambling yesterday to contain the fallout after its star recruit warned any delay to midyear elections in PNG would leave Australia ''no alternative but to organise the world to condemn and isolate Papua New Guinea''. The comments were met with dismay in Port Moresby. The PNG Foreign Minister, Ano Pala, took the rare and serious step of calling in the acting Australian high commissioner, Margaret Adamson, to complain about the threat. Senator Carr made the comments in a Wednesday night interview with long-time friend and former Labor numbers man Graham Richardson. He warned any delay to the elections after months of political turmoil would be a ''shocking model'' in the Pacific. ''We'd be in a position of

By Susan Merrell Dear Mr Namah,  The message I have from your personal assistant, Mr Anu Yadav is that you are not interested in giving an on-camera interview.  That notwithstanding, there are questions going begging.  And while I acknowledge that some may be of a personal nature, unfortunately, your position as the leader of a Christian nation makes your personal life a legitimate subject of public scrutiny as it impacts on Papua New Guinea and Papua New Guineans. MONEY Firstly, the amount of money that you purportedly had available to bet at the Star Casino last April was $800,000 (as reported in Sydney Morning Herald).   I have very roughly broken that down and have found that a PNGean on a wage of K3 per hour (more than the minimum hourly wage) would take around 250 working years to accumulate that much.  If a working lifetime is around 40 years then we are talking more than 6 PNGeans lifetimes to earn what you intended to spend in days. 1. Did you consider what sort of message th