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The incredible rise and fall of Sam Koim

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By PNG Echo Then… Sam Koim started his legal career, at the end of 2008, as an employed lawyer at the Office of the Solicitor General. He rose quickly (within three years) to national – even international – prominence. Koim owes his meteoric rise, at least the start of it, to his friendship with Sam Basil. Indeed it was Basil, then Minister for National Planning in the O’Neill/Namah government, who, in 2011, put in a submission to the NEC for the establishment of Task Force Sweep (TFS) with Koim at the helm. At the time, Koim had only two years Continue reading The incredible rise and fall of Sam Koim→

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Nature hates a vacuum: The potential demise of Peter O’Neill

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By PNG Echo Papua New Guinea has entered very dangerous political waters. The courts were aware of this when they cautioned restraint after the hearing to stay the arrest warrant of Peter O’Neill. – Yet both sides are going about, willy nilly, doing the very things that they were cautioned against and which may just land them with a contempt of court charge? The retired Police Commissioner, Sir Tom Kulunga, was recently convicted of contempt and received a sentence of seven months hard labour.   Not even this has deterred them. The Prime Minister’s actions are easily explainable – he’s Continue reading Nature hates a vacuum: The potential demise of Peter O’Neill→

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