Corruption and outright stealing, guiltless and thoughtless accessing of taxpayers’ money by those few individuals in authority are the order of the current modern day Papua New Guinea . Fraud and stealing has become a everyday normality that the ordinary Papua New Guinean has accepted this phenomenon as part life in Papua New Guinea and the taxpayer to a greater has become helpless to stop the robbery of his hard earned money that he has retired in contentment that there is nothing much he can do but manage what is left in his pocket.

I am a humble Mendi man, but a proud Papua New Guinean. I am witnessing the devil – the thief at work with my very eyes and I cannot stand back and watch but have to have a say and publicize a daylight robbery of my hard earned money, paid as taxes for the greater good of the country. This individual like a wolf in sheep skin, somebody who has never known what it means to make an honest income in his life let alone pay an income tax, is a cause of concern and must be exposed by all means and the appropriate authorities must take action to stop him and put him in his own class with the criminals where he belongs.

I am referring to the Honorable Member for Mendi Open, Pastor Isaac Joseph. The good Pastor was a humble pastor of a church; somebody who did not have a car of his own, let alone a house or a land under his own name before he became the Member for Mendi Open Electorate. He could not even afford a wife and was a bachelor.

This dull picture has changed over night and the fortune wheel has certainly turned 360 degrees for Pastor Isaac Joseph as soon as he became a Member of Parliament after the 2007 general elections.

Here are some evidence (maybe the tip of the iceberg) of outright stealing and fraud by the Member for Mendi. If I am wrong, good Pastor, by all means prove me wrong with a detailed explanation of how these assets came to you and show cause as to why you should not be charged for fraud and stealing from the taxpayers and stealing directly from the People of Mendi Open Electorate.

Honorable Pastor, you have bought and accumulated within the last two years, 2007 to 2009 over five houses in prime residential zones in Port Moresby . I am a professional in a well paid profession and I am struggling to buy my first house. Please explain how you managed to buy all these houses, land and properties in Gordons, Waigani and East Boroko within two years when prices of houses in these areas start at over K400,000.

Further you have also bought off half the suburb of Tente in Mendi Town all within these two years. Please explain where the money came from. If that is not enough, you have bought six cars. All brand new and 2 being the latest Toyota Land Cruisers. All within the last two years.

As if your personal accumulation of wealth is not enough, you have seen fit to award a K4.5 million contract to upgrade the Upper Mendi road to Tribes Investments Limited. A company solely owned and operated by your blood brother. Tribes Investments Limited does not own a single bulldozer or a truck to date, and one would wonder if the Company actually owned a single shovel at the time of being awarded the contract and being paid.

Further you have once again pulled off one of your pranks; this time on the Mogol Secondary School Board, the School Administration and the students last November when you went and presented the supposedly new set of computers and accessories. It was a joke only somebody like you will pull off in that the parcels and the boxes were certainly new but the contents – the computers were very old, out of date and useless as they could not work. Good one Pastor. Please go and collect your rubbish.

Pastor, you have no shame in showing off your wealth accumulated by stealing. A wealth accumulated at the expense of medicine for the sick, education for our children, roads and bridges to our markets and proper water supply to our villages in Mendi.

You have shown your arrogance and ignorance by paying a bride price of K120,000 and countless animals for your wife. It was a very sad day for the Mendi Open Electorate couple of weekends ago when you shamelessly displayed the K120,000 cash and the animals in Mendi Town . It was a sad day because sick people could not come to the hospital and get treated; school children could not have exercise and text books and a mother and baby died because she could not make it to Mendi General Hospital after child birth complications at Pingirip health center.

Your bride price was over K300,000 in total cost. That money could have bought some medicines, some books and maybe some new computers for Mogol Secondary School . Pastor, there are many other issues that you need to come clear and public on. You have chosen to be a public figure, a Member of Parliament and be the custodian of the Mendi People’s purse when you decided to contest the 2007 general elections.

Do not think for one moment that I am question your personal dealings and personal life. You are handling the public’s and taxpayers’ hard earned money and I have every right to question when my hard earned cash is stolen and misused. As a citizen of the Mendi Open Electorate, a taxpayer and a concerned Papua New Guinean, I call on you, my good Member, Pastor Isaac Joseph; come out and publicly declare your assets before you became a Member of Parliament, and your current financial status, after getting elected as a Member of Parliament. Please do not tell me to come to your office and see for myself the records, as I do not know where the Mendi Open Electoral Office is located. My guess would be the Holiday Inn Hotel in Port Moresby as you have been seen frequenting that establishment but there are many outlets in that hotel and I might get lost at the pokies or the bar and I do not have the time to play hide and seek with you in the hotels of Port Moresby .

Please publish your financial status now Mendi Member and the Ombudsman Commission, TI PNG and all other anti corruption organisations in the country, please take note.

By Apsii ni Karinz