POST ANALYSIS ON GEOFFREY VAKI’S CONVICTION - PART 1
by BRYAN KRAMER On Wednesday 17th June 2015 the Chief Justice Salamo Injia convicted the former Commissioner of Police Geoffrey Vaki on two charges of contempt of court for failing to execute the Warrant of Arrest issued by District Court against Prime Minister Peter O’Neill. The decision comes almost one year after Director of National Fraud & Anti-Corruption Directorate Mathew Damuru and his Deputy Timothy Gitua filed contempt proceedings against Vaki back in June 2014. Before discussing the judgement and its significance in detail lets first visit some of the background facts to help put most of the issues raised in this case in context. Damuru and Gitua were attached to Task Force Sweep Team who per the directive of Prime Minister on 13th May 2013 were investigating alleged fraudulent payments for legal bills of K71.8 million by the Finance Department to Paul Paraka Lawyers. Prime Minister O'Neill issued the directive instructing amongst other things that "