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Anti-corruption? I don’t think so

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By PNG Echo While corruption is a problem in PNG, the anti-corruption movements it has spawned are proving to be an even greater one. The recent launching of a Facebook site, PNG Anti-Corruption Movement for Change (PNGACMC) gave its founders pause for thought (at least it should have) as they provided a forum for black hatred expressed in the form of threats of extreme sexual violence and torture by one contributor against another. The threats were so horrific and disgustingly graphic that one person wrote it was …the worse thing she had ever read on Facebook. The founders and leaders Continue reading Anti-corruption? I don’t think so→

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Twivey’s referral to Law Society founded on a wrong premise.

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By PNG Echo When Judge Kirriwom today referred lawyer Tiffany Twivey to the Law Society for perverting the course of justice he did so on the premise that she had “…signed consent judgment setting aside the warrant of the arrest of Dairi Vele without notifying Detective Chief Inspector Gitua…” (page 30 – Judgment SCM No 87 of 2014). This is not what she’d done. Ms Twivey, in fact, signed on 29 July, in the District Court, a consent order for an adjournment that had been requested by the Commissioner of Police (as the warrant was short served). At the same Continue reading Twivey’s referral to Law Society founded on a wrong premise.→

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