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So you want Kerenga Kua as the next PM- Oh Please!

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By PNG Echo Social media has started throwing around Kerenga Kua’s name as a possible next Prime Minister of Papua New Guinea. In my opinion, it’s an ill-considered notion and this is why: Firstly, having spent many years as the late Sir Michael Somare’s personal lawyer, Kua, no doubt, knows where all the bodies are buried, what’s more, as his legal representative he likely would have helped Sir Michael dig the graves. If Sir Michael knows a certain something about corruption you have to wonder who was the master and who was the apprentice in this relationship. Hypocrisy Secondly, the Continue reading So you want Kerenga Kua as the next PM- Oh Please!→

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Corruption: Somare’s blueprint – Koim’s selective myopia

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By PNG Echo. If you need schooling in corruption, you need look no further than the lessons the founding father of Papua New Guinea, Governor of East Sepik Province and former Prime Minister, Sir Michael Somare, can teach you. Sir Michael is the chief architect in the shaping of a corrupt political culture that the international diplomatic community describes, in private, as a “dysfunctional blob.”  See article. The jargon The jargon of corruption like –  inflated contracts, bribery, kickbacks, travel junkets, unfulfilled contractual obligations, nepotism, lack of transparent accounting, circumvention of process, cronyism, disreputable companies, lying under oath, non-disclosure, payments Continue reading Corruption: Somare’s blueprint – Koim’s selective myopia→

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