Govt determined to pursue missing Woodlawn millions
Mr Speaker, when the O’Neill-Namah Government was elected on the floor of Parliament last year, we faced a tremendous task of reconstruction and reform after 10 years of waste, neglect and lost opportunity. I have spoken previously about the areas where this waste and neglect, and indeed corruption, was most prevalent and caused the most damage – in the State Owned Enterprises supervised by the Independent Public Business Corporation under the stewardship of the suspended Member for Angoram and his outrigger Mr Glen Blake who during that time claimed to be (and probably still is) the Somare family financial adviser. Since we were elected in August last year, much of the focus of my efforts, as Minister for State Enterprises, has been on finding out how big a mess the State Owned Enterprises are in; and where they have lost money, how that money was lost, where the money went to, and to try to get as much of that lost money back as we can. Mr Speaker, this is public money