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Damaru’s charges stayed: What irony, what blatant hypocrisy!

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By PNG Echo. Yesterday, Judge Polume heard an urgent application, ex parte (without the opposing parties) to stay the criminal charges recently levelled against Fraud Squad Officer, Matthew Damaru. Ostensibly, according to her ruling, this was to enable Damaru to continue with his policing duties. So what was stopping him, in the first place? According to the press release of the RPNGC immediately following the arrest: Mr Andrews [Deputy Police Commissioner] said whilst Mr Damaru is criminally charged for the alleged offences, he remains on active duty as Director NFACD and continues to perform his normal Constitutional Duties. So what Continue reading Damaru’s charges stayed: What irony, what blatant hypocrisy!→

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Look who’s talking – Foreign media.

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By PNG Echo. The failed state of PNG proclaimed the headline of Australian ’boutique’ publication The Saturday Paper, (its author, Mike Seccombe) This is opinion and, in my opinion, it is tainted opinion. It’s a melange of the same old sources, saying the same old thing, displaying a nostalgic longing for a time passed when Papua New Guinea was ‘get rich and get out’ country unimpeded by governments who were far more malleable than this one. Take the headline – incorrect:  the very first indication of a failed state is when the government loses control of its disciplinary forces. That hasn’t Continue reading Look who’s talking – Foreign media.→

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