Police Investigators always fail to produce the evidence when investigating leaders
By MICAH LAN In today’s Post Courier it was reported that charges of misappropriation have been dropped against Western Province administrator Modowa Gumoi for allegedly applying K500, 000 for his own use, among other things. What is going on here? Are the police incompetent? Or is the old “pay them off to lose the evidence” scam at work again? There are many things we must get out of our heads about our country Papua New Guinea. First this idea that we are a Christian country, We are not a Christian country, we only say we are. If anything we were more of a Christian country before the first Christian missionaries came because at least there was a strong environment of sharing within the clan, and firm rules of justice and compensation that applied more broadly. The words spiv, humbug, corrupt was much less applicable back then than now. At least we weren’t hypocrites back then. Today we are. We pretend to be something we’re not. Another thing to get out of our head is that we