Money Starved PNG Government Still Has Plenty of Money To Burn Publishing Its Expensive Propaganda Rag
by SALMA KULI JACOB There is one thing we can be very grateful to the UPNG students for when they burnt thousands of Post Couriers and National newspapers last week. They probably didn’t realize it but they simultaneously burnt a colourful and very expensive insert called PNG Now. PNG Now is the official government propaganda piece. It is published by Isaac Lupari. In case you don’t know one of Mr Lupari’s highest accomplishments, he was charged by the Finance Department Commission of Inquiry with embezzling K3.7 million along with Guguna Garo, of Paul Paraka lawyers. The solicitor general at the time, Zachary Gelu, settled the bill for his kickback of the funds. An additional K800,000 was also paid to Paul Paraka lawyers for their role in facilitating the fraud. All of this was yours and my tax money. Read the article: https://pngexposed.wordpress.com/2010/05/31/isaac-lupari-aided-by-gelu-and-paraka-lawyers-stole-k3-7-million/ That finding has been quietly