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Peter O’Neill was one of the three people who orchestrated the NPF Tower Fraud. He helped steal millions from the retirement savings of ordinary Papua New Guineans and he has never been brought to justice. Mr O’Neill, Jimmy Maladina and Herman Leahy shared in the K2.5 million from the scam. There was a Commission of Inquiry into the NPF. It recommended various people be prosecuted for stealing, amongst other offences. One of them was Peter O’Neill. In what is now known as the Tower Fraud, Kumugai Gumi were contracted to build what is now known as Deloitte Tower in Port Moresby – a large multiple story office building. The original contract price was about K47 Million. But will Bill Skate and his boys badly managing and plundering the country, the Kina was on the slide – from 1:1 with the Australian Dollar in 1997 it had quickly slid to K1 = .75c in 1998/99 Kumugai Gumi began to hurt. The building of the tower was not a hugely profitable project and was really a vehicle to entrench the

Peter O’Neill was one of the three people who orchestrated the NPF Tower Fraud. He helped steal millions from the retirement savings of ordinary Papua New Guineans and he has never been brought to justice. Mr O’Neill, Jimmy Maladina and Herman Leahy shared in the K2.5 million from the scam. There was a Commission of Inquiry into the NPF. It recommended various people be prosecuted for stealing, amongst other offences. One of them was Peter O’Neill. In what is now known as the Tower Fraud, Kumugai Gumi were contracted to build what is now known as Deloitte Tower in Port Moresby – a large multiple story office building. The original contract price was about K47 Million. But will Bill Skate and his boys badly managing and plundering the country, the Kina was on the slide – from 1:1 with the Australian Dollar in 1997 it had quickly slid to K1 = .75c in 1998/99 Kumugai Gumi began to hurt. The building of the tower was not a hugely profitable project and was really a veh

By LUCAS KIAP Thank you the Chairman of the Investigation Task-Force Sweep Mr. Sam Koim for shedding some light on the issue of the alleged fraudulent payment of K71.8 million to Paul Paraka Lawyers (PPL). Your media release, dated 7th January 2014 on the issue of the alleged fraudulent payment of K71.8 million to Paul Paraka Lawyers has not only helped clarify the status of the investigations, which you are heading but also bridge the nation, which has been torn apart by the issue as well as erasing any doubt the people may have had developed about the credibility of this government’s seriousness and willingness to fight against corruption. You may have along the way encountered criticisms because the case involves public funds, the money which belongs to the people who are struggling to survive day-in-day-out, while the government on the other hand continues to preach about continued economic growth and big budget plans. You may also have encountered threats because corruption is dee

By LUCAS KIAP Thank you the Chairman of the Investigation Task-Force Sweep Mr. Sam Koim for shedding some light on the issue of the alleged fraudulent payment of K71.8 million to Paul Paraka Lawyers (PPL). Your media release, dated 7th January 2014 on the issue of the alleged fraudulent payment of K71.8 million to Paul Paraka Lawyers has not only helped clarify the status of the investigations, which you are heading but also bridge the nation, which has been torn apart by the issue as well as erasing any doubt the people may have had developed about the credibility of this government’s seriousness and willingness to fight against corruption. You may have along the way encountered criticisms because the case involves public funds, the money which belongs to the people who are struggling to survive day-in-day-out, while the government on the other hand continues to preach about continued economic growth and big budget plans. You may also have encountered threats because corruption

“Until there is a LEGISLATION that controls the Media, there is freedom of Expression and freedom of speech. Every reporter must exercise their right of carrying out Investigative Journalism”, These were the words spoken by the Leader of the Opposition and Open Member for Vanimo Green Electorate, Hon. Belden Namah, in a Press Conference held today. The Opposition Leader held the Press Conference this afternoon to express his disappointment at the way the media seems to be controlled, with more emphasis on how any news or Press Conference matters from the Opposition is being scrutinized and delayed broadcast or not at all. A recent example being yesterdays news run with the failure of both local Television Stations EMTV and KunduTv, in playing yesterdays Press Conference in which Mr. Namah displayed and addressed Warrants of Arrest and Court Orders for the Arrest of the Prime Minister, Peter O’Neill, Treasurer Don Polye and Finance Minister James Marape. In a phone call to the Oppositio

“Until there is a LEGISLATION that controls the Media, there is freedom of Expression and freedom of speech. Every reporter must exercise their right of carrying out Investigative Journalism”, These were the words spoken by the Leader of the Opposition and Open Member for Vanimo Green Electorate, Hon. Belden Namah, in a Press Conference held today. The Opposition Leader held the Press Conference this afternoon to express his disappointment at the way the media seems to be controlled, with more emphasis on how any news or Press Conference matters from the Opposition is being scrutinized and delayed broadcast or not at all. A recent example being yesterdays news run with the failure of both local Television Stations EMTV and KunduTv, in playing yesterdays Press Conference in which Mr. Namah displayed and addressed Warrants of Arrest and Court Orders for the Arrest of the Prime Minister, Peter O’Neill, Treasurer Don Polye and Finance Minister James Marape. In a phone call to the

By KOMAI APULIN Death Penalty Issue A while back Attorney General (AG) of Papua New Guinea (PNG) Hon. Kerenga Kua roundly rebuked three foreign diplomats. He accused them of taking debate on death penalty, an issue that he considers to be a purely domestic PNG matter, to unacceptable levels. The AG was incensed that the three European diplomats were “implicitly threatening and intimidating PNG in the way it is designing its social development agenda”. The AG was actually responding to a paid newspaper advertorial on the death penalty by those diplomats. The advertorial was critical of PNG Parliament’s passage of amendments to its laws to extend the death penalty to cover offences for which it had not been applicable previously. The three diplomats appeared to hold a view that the death penalty is inappropriate for PNG. They clearly want to influence a review of the death penalty in PNG. Obviously they strayed into sovereignty issues but I thought the diplomats conveyed a sobering persp