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By Angry Former Policeman The Post Courier confirmed the corrupt takeover by rogue police of the National Fraud and Anti-Corruption Directorate on Wednesday.  Were they hoping to find and destroy evidence do disable the Directorate?   Geoffrey Vaki is trying to get control of the Directorate for obvious reasons.    Honouring his master O’Neill, Vaki wants the unit ineffective so that it takes no action against his Sugar Daddy Prime Minister.  This is the same Geoffrey Vaki who spoilt the reputation of the uniform he wears several years ago by throwing a woman out of his moving vehicle.  That is the kind of role model that Geoffrey Vaki is. As long as Geoffrey Vaki is destined to be our corrupt police commissioner for awhile, lets accept the inevitable and help him train his police force so that they also follow the Vaki way and do what Geoffrey Vaki deep down approves of.   Carry on, Mr Vaki.  We know your history and what you stand for.  Here are some posters you can u

By David Igata Meet the poorest president of the world, in the democratic country of Uruguay.  The poorest president in the world is Jose Mujica.  He has been president of Uruguay since 2010. President Mujica gives 90% of his salary away to charity every year, choosing NGOs that help poor people and small business entrepreneurs.  How much does our Peter O’Neill give to charity?  We don’t know.  We don’t even know how much money Peter O’Neill has or he makes.  We don’t even know for certain how he makes his money, except the rumours, or how he made so much money in so few years.  That is how crazy secretive our country is.  But we allow it. The average Papua New Guinean has on idea how much money Peter O’Neill makes but the average citizen of the still developing country of Uruguay knows how much President Mujica makes per fortnight.  It is pretty good salary, about what our own MPs make.  About K14,800 per fortnight but that is before taxes are removed.   However President

By LUCAS KIAP When wanted criminals such the late William Kapris are set after by the law, people are so quick to jump into their conclusions, wanting nothing more than the death verdict even without being tried and found guilty by a competent court of law. It is so easy for a criminal to be chased by the law than a politician who is offcourse elected by the people unlike a criminal who decide his own faith to steal. What we have come to terms with over the last few years since Peter O’Neill become the only PM in the history of this great country to topple an elected government in a coup like leadership grabbing has attracted so much attention that he has become the focal point of public attention, like a top criminal wanted by the law. If anything would take to neutralise and divert public attention away from being wanted by the law, no one can do better than Peter O’Neill. He has been, apart from portraying his public image, becoming a celebrity figure more than a PM.

By Paul Flanagan  On 30 September, PNG’s central bank (BPNG) released their six monthly monetary policy statement. This was a mixture of good and bad news. I mentioned in a blog a couple of weeks ago that possibly the only thing more boring in economics than exchange rates was monetary aggregates. So this blog will go into these monetary aggregates but once again, there are some very important development issues tucked away among the technical details. Indeed, there are some very worrying steps being taken that auger poorly for PNG’s international credibility and ultimately its future development. Good news On the good news side. First, it is positive that the statement came out and continued a positive pattern of transparency of major six-monthly updates (on top of shorter monthly updates). Some countries don’t do this – and this can damage their credibility. Second, the updates on some of the behind-the-scenes work that make for a more efficient economy are impressive. Improv

By O’Neill’s Supporter - MENDI I welcome the news of Telikom wanting to buy Nau FM and Em-TV. It is overdue that the government take control of these operations immediately. The reason can be found in this article that appeared in the National. The original source of this negative information is Nau FM talkback program. They interviewed Mr Paul Barker to get negative information about the economy to make our Prime Minister look like he is incompetent in financial matters. He would not be the richest man in PNG if he didn’t know how to manage money properly. Our country is in excellent financial hands with Peter O’Neill. Nau FM is using its talkback program to spread negative information about the Prime Minister and his government. Paul Barker is telling lies to make Peter O’Neill look bad and Nau FM is happy to broadcast the lies all over PNG which the newspapers pick up. We know that it will not look good for the government to rid itself of Paul Barker and other negative people.

Government Insider Moreby’s fanciest hotels and even the scattered fancy hotels located in other PNG towns and cities love the new legal corruption that now dominates the PNG government when it comes to workshops.  Chief Secretary Sir Manasupe Zurenuoc finally figured out what honest public servants saw nearly 10 years ago and were practicing without detection.   The harder it gets to steal money, the more motivated dishonest public servants are to find alternative means of experiencing the fancy life, even if only for a few days.  If it now is too hard to steal enough money to bring your girlfriend to the Crowne Plaza for a weekend of loving and high living, you need to find other ways to still experience the fancy life.  Fancy workshops have become a form of legal corruption to achieve this objective. Here’s now this new legal corruption works.    Government workshops used to be held at modest hotels, even guest houses at the provincial level.  Many were held at simple church

The Supreme Court this morning is hearing an urgent application filed by Prime Minister seeking interim injunction orders preventing Police from taking further action against him in relation to the Paraka-gate scandal. The Prime Minister filed the application joining the James Marape's appeal case currently before the Supreme Court. Marape filed an appeal in the Supreme Court in July appealing the decision of the National Court Judge Kariko's ruling back in June refusing to grant a stay on the warrant of arrest against Prime Minister Peter O’Neill. Pending the full hearing of the appeal Supreme Court granted interim injunction orders against Police arresting Marape. Prime Minister who is also facing further charges in relation to the Paraka-gate scandal is now seeking the same orders from the Supreme Court. The matter is listed this morning before three man bench of the Supreme Court. *************************** Analysis by BRYAN KRAMMER Prior to the District Cour