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Belden Namah’s demise: The ‘push’ factor (or: lack of effective leadership)

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By PNG Echo In a press statement issued earlier this week, Belden Namah, leader of a rapidly diminishing parliamentary opposition, vehemently denied that the defection of his MPs had anything to do with defective leadership and everything to do with the lure of money.  (A considerable irony, given his admission of using K50 million in the 2012 elections to buy votes and loyalty – yes Mr. O’Neill, I’m with you: where did that come from?) Back in June of 2012 I wrote It’s a sad spectacle to see Namah on the campaign trail, trying to buy admiration.  Showing off his Continue reading Belden Namah’s demise: The ‘push’ factor (or: lack of effective leadership)→

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All of the 77 evil and corrupt SABL’s are cancelled.

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By PNG Echo Today will go down in the annals of PNG history as a day when something insightful, far-reaching and concrete was finally done about corrupt practises in PNG.  But this is not my story to tell – it belongs to all those that have fought tooth and nail to save the environment.  So over to you Tiffany Twivey-Nonggorr who writes: You want to talk about corruption fighting?  Well this government has just killed the biggest corrupt dealing of the past 10 years. During the Somare government, a heinous scheme of issuing SABLs over large forest areas was created Continue reading All of the 77 evil and corrupt SABL’s are cancelled.→

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