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By LUCAS KIAP Paul Tiensten can now argue his sentence in court. Of course the PM Peter O’Neil and his cabinet seem to be telling the people of PNG and the world that Paula Tiensten was wrongly accused and convicted because Task Force Sweep was being systematically corrupted, heavily compromised and politicised. Peter O’Neill and his government have created Task Force Sweep to fight against corruption. Now Peter O’Neill and his cabinet have disbanded Task Force Sweep because the PM is implicated by the Task Force Sweep with new evidences in the alleged fraudulent payment of K71.8 million to Paul Paraka Lawyers. The PM and his cabinet ministers are accusing Task Force Sweep of being systematically corrupted, heavily compromised and politicised. The people of PNG must now come to realise that the actions of this government of O’Neill-Dion are becoming a grave concern and a serious threat to the very survival of this country because they seem to want a certain outcome of every

By M Korua Never for a moment think that the devil doesn’t come in disguise, offering attractive lollies to join his side.  Never believe that he can’t find supporters to cry his pretend name with reverence.  Don’t think he can’t easily sway people with material temptations.   That is the devil’s power.  But anyone who possesses a soul and blocks their minds to the devils superficial propaganda and temptations will see the truth.  The reason why the devil rules PNG today in one form or another is due to continued public ignorance and the inability to resist superficial temptation.  Peter O’Neill is the master of offering devilish lollies.  He offers FREE HEALTH CARE in thousands of rural aid posts containing either no medicine or counterfeit drugs to treat the dying.  He offers FREE EDUCATION to all young people in overflowing classrooms with no books or other resource materials, and sometimes no teachers.   The devil’s FREE HEALTH and FREE EDUCATION programme has become an obscenity

By VERGIL NARAKOBI The call for the resignation by the Prime Minister is a political question, not so much a legal question. The Prime Minister, like any body who goes through the criminal justice system is innocent until proven guilty. Here are some matters the Prime Minister should consider when making that decision. Kua was Somare's lawyer in the misconduct allegations against Somare. They went through the judicial process to challenge the OC. They failed. But they fronted up at the Leadership Tribunal, went through the process, found guilty by the Tribunal, paid the fine and life goes on. Skate resigned as Prime Minister paving the way for Sir Mekere to come in an atmosphere of serious allegations leveled against him. Julius Chan resigned when public opinion against him was overwhelming in the Sandline Affair. We hold public office as custodians for the people. If they are wrong in their convictions, they stand to suffer. That is the nature of our democracy. We have nothing t

By PNC People's National Congress Media Unit Yesterday and today have seen unprecedented support being shown by the people of Papua New Guinea for the Prime Minister Hon. Peter O'Neill. The Court House has seen thousands of supporters rallying to show there on-going support for this amazing Prime Minister. This Prime Minister has delivered real results for the country and all of the people in PNG. While some of the Social Media channels would like everyone to believe that our Prime Minister has no support, today has been a clear example of the real support that he does have in the country. The support is coming from across PNG, with people rallying behind the Prime Minister to show there commitment to him and the Government. The people of PNG are commenting that they don't want to loose this Prime Minister that has done so much for the country. People are also commenting that people would have to be blind not to see the changes right across the country. We encourage

By Activist Without Ego   Various people on the social media over the years have pointed back to what was PNG’s finest hour ever.  That one bright time in PNG’s history came at the end of the Sandline Scandal, when the corrupt PM Julius Chan paid K100 million to bring an army of foreign white mercenaries, fully armed,  to start slaughtering Bougainvilleans so that Chan could have his way and get the Panguna mine reopened and churning revnues into the national treasury.   It was all about money.    Just like today, there was an organised movement against Sandline which had its own leaders.  Those leaders played a positive role in some respects.   However just like what we see today, those leaders also happened to be hypocrites in their own right.  For example the arms buying bribe-taking General Jerry Singirok is replaced today by the SABL land grabbing Beldon Namah as pretend leaders for truth and justice.  Nothing has changed in that respect.   In 1996 the people of PN

Breaking NEWS! PM WINS COURT BATTLE AS HIS NEW POLICE COMMISSIONER "CONSENTS" By:Cedric Patjole PNGLOOP The Prime Minister has won a victory in court as the new Police Commissioner tells court the Royal PNG Constabulary consents to the PM request for a stay on the arrest warrants. Judge Ere Kariko ruled at 11am that he accepted the change of lawyers to represent the Police Force in the matter. Then, the new Police Commissioner Geoffrey Vaki informed the court that he consented on behalf of the force to the Prime Minister’s request for a stay on the arrest warrants that were issued for Mr O’Neill last Thursday. This means that fraud squad detectives who had formally asked the Prime Minister to present for an interview on questions to do with payments to Paraka Lawyers, will no longer be able to enforce the warrants and arrest Mr O’Neill. NO STAY APPLICATION GRANTED - CASE ADJOURNED TO 29TH JUNE - NEW AG SIDELINE POLICE LAWYER APPOINT NEW LAWYER & SEEK

News is surfacing through political informants that the PM has directed AG and NEC to disband Task Force Sweep standing down Sam Koim. This would prevent the TFS Chairman from further investigations into corruption against Members of Parliament. The Investigation Task Force Sweep was established August 2011 by NEC. The initiative was spearheaded by Prime Minister Peter O’Neill as part of his well-publicised his anti-corruption campaign. The mandate of Task Force Sweep was initially to investigate allegations of corruption and mismanagement in the Department of National Planning and Monitoring, but the scope was expanded to include investigating allegations of corruption in a number of other government departments and their officials. Task Force Sweep is chaired by Sam Koim, the Principal Legal Officer at the Department of Justice and Attorney-General. The investigations are led by the Police Department’s Fraud and Anti-Corruption Unit and Finance Intelligence Uni

The desperate circus leader with his sideshow clowns. Prime Minister Peter O’Neill maintained his innocence in the fraudulent payment of millions of public funds to Paraka Lawyers and deplored the manner in which a warrant of arrest was issued to arrest him. He has directed the establishment of a Commission of Inquiry to be headed by Justice Warwick Andrews. He believes his arrest is politically motivated and is a result of the changes he made in government when he removed certain government ministers. Prime Minister Peter O’Neill hosted a media conference today, backed by all PNC cabinet members and ministers and other coalition partners, including Deputy Prime Minister Leo Dion, as a show of solidarity. He again denied signing the letter authorising the payment of millions of kina to Paul Paraka, and said that claims that his arrest were based on new evidence were all done by people with vested interests. He says organizations and government departments involved

AUSTRALIAN private investigators and an Aussie judge are playing key roles in a corruption scandal that threatens to topple Papua New Guinea Prime Minister Peter O’Neill, it has emerged.   A warrant for Mr O’Neill’s arrest was obtained on Monday by fraud investigators who want to grill the prime minister over allegations he siphoned millions of dollars of public cash to a law firm. Mr O’Neill strongly denies any wrongdoing and obtained a court order putting the warrant on ice. The key evidence in the case — which has gripped PNG for months — is a letter that Mr O’Neill allegedly signed authorising $31 million be paid to prominent law firm, Paul Paraka lawyers. The prime minister has dismissed the note as a fake. But Taskforce Sweep boss Sam Koim revealed on Tuesday that Sydney-based private investigators believe the document is genuine. “We have now received the forensic examination report from the Sydney-based Forensic Document Services Pty Ltd confirming that the signat

Breaking News National Court issued interim stay order .  In a packed National Court room at Waigani the case filed by PM Lawyers seeking an urgent orders preventing his arrest was adjourned before it even started. Council representing the PM Tiffany Nonggor sought an adjournment after short service (late service) of Sam Koim's affidavit by the State's (Govt) Lawyer.  She asked to first study the affidavit before making her submission. The judge accepted her request for adjournment and ordered parties return tomorrow 9:30am. They will argue their case before the judge will make a decision whether or not to grant a stay order preventing Police arresting the PM. Other reports Polye on a flight back from Brisbane today and will make himself available to be interviewed and arrested over the Parakagate issue. Assistant Commissioners of Police raise objection to Geoffrey Vaki's appointment as acting Commissioner of Police regarding his absence from the force since 2009 ye

UPDATE 1:39PM ARREST DEFERRED Judge Ere Kariko had deferred his decision to 9.30 am tomorrow to uphold or reject the application. Meanwhile the Judge had ruled that the police make no arrest and that the Acting Commissioner for police should not interfere with the warrant for the arrest of the prime minister. ACP Thomas Eluh calmly expressed satisfaction outside the court that all should go well tomorrow. In that he implied that police should perform their duties unhindered. Should that happen the prime minister would be arrested and charged and a new prime minister would be appointed as early as next week. UPDATE 1:03PM PM FAILS IN STAY ORDER BID No Stay Order has been granted to Prime Minister Peter O'Neill to stop the Police from arresting him, the case has been adjourned to 9:30am Wednesday morning. The PM risks being arrested on sight, he has been asked to turn up for the interview, if he fails to do so, Police will have no choice but to put all their resources

PAUL PARAKA, The man behind all the controversy ''As you are aware, we have now received the Forensic Examination Report from the Sydney based Forensic Document Services Pty Ltd confirming that the signature on the letter dated 24th January 2012 bearing the Prime Minister’s letterhead, name and signature directing payments to Paul Paraka Lawyers is PM O’Neill’s .'' My Dear Commissioner, RE: REASSESSMENT OF INVESTIGATIONS INTO ALLEGATION OF FRAUDULENT PAYMENTS TO PAUL PARAKA LAWYERS – PETER O’NEILL’S INVOLVEMENT This letter notifies you of the change of position from my previous letter to you dated 14th January 2014. The foregoing paragraphs contain the brief of our reassessment of the case as against Peter O’Neill in light of fresh evidence that have now become available. Previous Findings In my previous letter, I briefed you of the findings of Task-Force Sweep as against Hon Peter O’Neill, Hon Don Polye, Hon James Marape and Mr Steven Gibson. I di

PNGBLOGS REPORTERS Peter O’Neill is praying to the Honourable Court to “stay any arrests in this matter until the issue of the validity of the bills are determined”. “To arrest the executive government when the bills are deemed valid are not in the best inter ests of the country both internally and for our international reputation, Prime Minister Peter O’Neill declared in his affidavit in which he is seemingly seeking desperately, with the aid of his Australian female lawyer Tiffany Twivey, to avoid being arrested and to cling onto power at any cost. The case is causing further confusion to the public in light of the Prime Ministers media statement posted late last night on his PNC Party page which announced that the National court had granted him a stay on the new arrest warrant issued on June 12th, 2014 and served yesterday on June 16th – despite the fact that NBC News PNG reported last night "Judge Ere Kariko said he would hear the matter tomorrow at 10.30 in the mornin

"I was cleared by Task Force Sweep" PETER O'NIELL PRIME Minister Peter O’Neill yesterday refused to go in for questioning in response to an arrest warrant that was issued by the Royal PNG Constabulary’s National Fraud and Anti-Corruption Directorate. The warrant was served on the PM yesterday morning by the Assistant Commissioner for Police (crimes) Thomas Eluh and the politician was expected to front up at the directorate at 11am or 1pm yesterday. It is in relation to allegations of fraudulent payments made to law firm Paul Paraka Lawyers between May 2013 and February 2014. However, by 3pm the police investigators were still waiting and were later advised of an urgent application by the PM’s lawyers in the National Court to get an injunction to stop the interrogation, pending the outcome of another court proceedings by Finance Minister James Marape to determine the legality or otherwise of the payments to Paul Paraka lawyers. Correspondence obtained yesterday by t

Latest news PM served arrest warrant by TFS in relation to Parakagate Scandal. When served the warrant PM was given instructions to notify his lawyer and report to Fraud Squad Office to be interviewed at 1pm today. PM instead takes refuge (hides-out) in the Parliament House protected by Parliamentary privileges to avoid TFS formally arresting him. No Member of Parliament can be arrested or served court documents within Parliament precinct (house). He instructs his lawyers to file urgent application to put a stay (stop) on the warrants for his arrest. FROM ABC Papua New Guinea's Prime Minister has been served an arrest warrant in relation to a fraud case by the country's anti-corruption body. The head of Papua New Guinea's anti-corruption unit Task Force Sweep has confirmed an arrest warrant has been served on Peter O'Neill. Mr O'Neill was served with an arrest warrant this morning. He had been expected to visit the police fraud office today f