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Michael Somare was a guest at Divine Word University's graduation ceremony last year. He so liked the bread that they bake on campus there that he sent a minion to buy out all the bread in the bakery, sent it out to Madang airport and flew it to Wewak in the Falcon. The Falcon then flew back to Madang to await his pleasure. How's that for tinpot dictator behaviour?
Australia can only export the exploitation and patronising subjugation I have seen in my home town ..
It's a disgrace and only three years of struggle has resulted in change. This is the Australia that witnesses to you and preaches to PNG (where I spent my childhood , no expat lifestyle thank you very much !) how to run things ...
The emails are a trail of what was sent to various Australian departments and show a major buck passing effort because they regard us as too black , too remote ..
In 2008 while serving as a deputy headteacher of a primary school in Morobe Province K63,453.00 school subsidy was used for drinking, womanising and unnecessary spending by the schools headteacher and board chairman .
With the help of the simple villagers and school children, we removed the head teacher out but he chanllenge this removal in court but lost terribly.
The provincial education officials supported him because he has bribed them with part of the subsidy and as a result they penalised me by displacing me. I was so vocal against corruption.
As an insider within the Vulipindi House, I have recently observed over the last 12 months massive millions siphoned out of the Planning office by corrupt officails especialy junior officers and their bosses on behalf of bogus company's pretending to be government contractors.
How can officer with salary range of K22 000 to K28 000 per annum start work and in less than 12 months own a home, or fleets of cars, or spend thousands every weeknd drinking up with friends?
By: Albert Kaupa TOBBY
After living three years in Beijing, China, I arrived in Port Moresby on 30th July, 2010.
A few months before coming to PNG, I’ve read online in our two dailies that, there was a cold-blooded murder committed inside the Jackson’s airport’s terminal. Illegal high-powered rifle were also confiscated at the terminals.
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 visited Goroka in 2008 annd met one of my old students. In 2008 she was a senior nurse in Goroka Base hospital and in fact was the president of the Nurses Association. She and some of her senior nurses were suspended by the board of management of the hospital because they were complaining about the corruption that was occurring in the hospital. Apparently some members of the board were taking medicines from the hospital and selling them to local GP.s The nurses association was fighting back. Unfortunately I don't know the results of their action.
I am aware that there are some corrupt practices in the Defence Force. I know of some people involved, and I tell them the way they are doing business is through corruption . There is a company called Henry Wilson Ingirin Ltd. What I know is that that;
I would like to request that you follow up on an investigation report conducted on the Leasing of the Sambre Haus that was commissioned by former minister for Public Service, Sinai Brown. The investigation was to find out how the Dept of Personnel Management and its Office Allocation Committee paid advance rent to the agent of the landlord a man called Alois Kingsley (who later became the MP for Madang) prior to Building Board approval and when the building was still not yet fitted with furniture and other fittings.
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