The John Simon Strategy To Avoid Being Caught for Corruption. Learning From PNG’s Grand Masters of Corruption
BY MAPRIK BOB From the moment he was elected, the now disgraced Maprik MP John Simon applied a strategy that over the years has gotten many corrupt MPs off the hook. Peter O’Neill has long applied this technique successfully, as have many other MPs, including Anderson Agiru, Puka Temu, David Arore, and even that old horse, Peter Yama. One even wonders if Michael Somare, father of the totally corrupt Arthur Somare and founder of the National Alliance of which John Simon is a member, was one of Mr Simon’s teachers? The essence of the Strategy is to act like you’re the one angry about corruption and trying to fight it. You’re the anti-corruption fighter and it’s everyone else who is guilty. That’s the role that John Simon took on from the moment he was elected. Right after the 2012 election, Simon spoke before a large crowd outside the Maprik district office and laid down the law. Playing the role of the honest leader to the extreme, he impounded all government vehicles, h