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Opposition: Baying for blood

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By PNG Echo The arrest warrants out for Prime Minister Peter O’Neill, Treasurer Don Polye and Minister for Finance James Marape over the alleged facilitation of illegal payments to lawyer, Paul Paraka may yet prove premature and an actual hindrance to justice. These warrants, sworn out late last year, have yet to be actioned and the Opposition Leader, Belden Namah, yesterday, broke his ban on talking to the mainstream media to insist that the Police Commissioner arrest the trio. Belden Namah, in this repeated call for arrest, is toadying to the most base instincts of revenge and instant gratification.  It Continue reading Opposition: Baying for blood→

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Don Polye – the Engan.

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By PNG Echo  Well is he really?  Engan, that is. Polye lived the majority of his life in Mt Hagen.  Perhaps that’s why his elevation to the position of MP for Kandep sticks in the craw of so many.  Because, in an electorate that’s riven with internecine violence, Polye’s rise to power has hardly been a unifying force  – quite the opposite. He has the dubious honour of an attempted assassination on his life during a political rally in Kandep in 2007. It’s clear that this ‘true son of Enga’, is not loved by all.  Election shenanigans The gunman may Continue reading Don Polye – the Engan.→

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