There are two shocking news today

1. Police stops NGO Awareness on Moti saga at Tabari Place Boroko;
2. Arthur Somare to put all media under Microscope and scrutinize it.


Are these elements of Dictatorship and Communism that we read about in other countries?


Somebody answer me.

First, provide the backup info so we have some substance and basis on which to comment.

WHICH NGOs are involved? I didn't think the NGOs did anything anymore, they let the land reform progress with hardly saying anything.

i have never heard of these NGOs existing in PNG, until after the issue of Moti. these NGOs should better vocal about the "lack of development taking place in rural areas, than preaching on the streets of Port Moresby about Moti issue".

Are you talking about this Arther..oopns, his real name is Antap.

Antap Somare is following the footsteps of Sohato family in Indonesia to own the media. He can get corrupt because the element to blow the whistle is control and suppresses the freedom of speech by ordinary PNGans, including the NGOs.

Thats all Antapim Somare is after.

Antapim Somare is trying to get amendments done to licencing of telecommunication by going through the back door. Because he is antap long Somare.

Thats Antapim Somare, once referred to by Peter Bartter that he can make NEC executive decision on the family's dinner table.

In not so near future he will become like Sohato's offspring in Indonesia. Thats he's ultimate aim.

Guys, watch out.

NGO, ol istap long wanem hap!, Freakin' idiot, I've been lookin for em all over this gawd damn country. Ol mekita what in POM city, selling Buai daka

Buaidaka NGO's all under bribery. mate.

the call; NGOs that are so vocal against Somare about Moti Issue, are used by individuals and other sources both internally and externally.

they thought, student forces would be led by UPNG to be vocal against Somare on Moti issue. but UPNG students with the rest of the students around the country have already washed their hands-off such issues. the students are more concentrate with their studies than the Moti issue.

the individuals and certain sources are now using NGO organisation to be vocal about the issue. they will try but will never make.

As per the latest NEC approvals, Patrick Tamur has now got the power of ICCC. The stupid didnt know that Arthur has used him.

Is Patrick Tamur Sepik? Or is that an extremely dumb and stupid question for me to ask?

Both from today's Post and The National.


Police ‘crashes’ NGO forum

By ELIZABETH MIAE http://www.thenational.com.pg/100207/nation11.htm

LEADERS of four NCD-based NGO groups claimed they were threatened by police while staging a public forum on the Julian Moti issue at Tabari place, Boroko yesterday.
Presidents of Eda Hanua Moresby Philip Kepan, PNG Millennium Good Governance Southern branch Victor Kongop, PNG National Awareness Front Noel Anjo and NCD Informal Sector Youth Association Benjamin Pokapen claimed the incident happened in the morning where armed police officers walked into the arena where the speakers were and ordered them to stop the forum immediately.
They claimed that they were advised by the NCD/Central divisional commander Alfred Reu that such forums could provoke the public to become rowdy and had the potential to become violent.
However, the four group leaders claimed that they were simply holding an awareness forum and did not try to instigate violence.
They were told to formally write to the police commissioner seeking permission to hold such a meeting.
The main topic of discussion at the forum was NGOs and the civil society’s demand that the Prime Minister must resign over the Moti issue.

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Government proposes to set media guidelines

http://www.thenational.com.pg/100207/nation9.htm


THE media industry in Papua New Guinea is to come under the microscope of the Government.
The Information and Communication Department plans to review a policy known as the National Information and Communication Policy (NPIC) which dates back to 1994, to come up with guidelines for the media.
Information and Communication has been split from Private Enterprises and is a separate department, with Kokopo MP Patrick Tammur as minister responsible.
The department’s acting secretary Henao Iduhu announced recently that the NPIC review “is important so that the rules of engagement for the media industry and publishing houses are clear”.
“We must ensure that the media industry abide by professional ethics,” Mr Iduhu said in a statement released during a ministerial briefing with Mr Tammur last month.
“We must ensure that they play the game within guidelines set out by the Government and not allow them to move the goal post. Everybody plays to our rules, to ensure that everybody is a winner.”
Asked to clarify his comments and whether it meant the Government was moving to restrict free speech and freedom of the press by introducing guidelines, Mr Iduhu said this was not what was intended.
“Freedom of media will not be curtailed at all. All I’m saying is it is a two-way thing,” he said, adding the PNG Media Council would be invited to contribute to the review.
He said if the media plays its part and report fairly, accurately and responsibly, there would be no cause for alarm.
Mr Iduhu said the review would start towards the end of the year or early next year when funds were made available in the budget.
Meanwhile, the department was also seeking K1.5 million from the Treasury Department to begin the feasibility study for the introduction of a television station run by the Government.
The National Television Station for PNG would come under the National Broadcasting Corporation umbrella.
Mr Iduhu said a consultant is being sought to undertake the study and to advise the Government on the TV proposal.

The funny thing is that almost everywhere in the world, university students have been the single most effective group in bringing about radical social change and improvements in a society. They have been the ones to start peaceful revolutions, to stop wars, to overthrow dictators.

If our uni students are now silent, that's nothing to be thankful for. It's something to be disappointed in, and even shamed about. Because if our students won't speak out, then all is lost for PNG, except to remain under the tight clutches of our new Asian masters.

yes, UPNG did it! Thumbs up for UPNG!

After the expulsion/termination of Tom Olga (then student leader, protest master-mind and current Governor), UPNG has become a pussi.

I think the silence from our universities on these issues may be due to the fact that majority of uni students nowadays are in their late teens and early twenties, have grown up with the trappings of modernisation, and are free to take a keener interest in the opposite gender (hormonal production going over-drive).

A couple of years back, the demographics were quite different: you had young MEN (mostly from the highlands) who were opinionated, fearless and had a broader outlook on life. They were the ones who took to the streets and ended up giving their lives for a greater and noble purpose however we may view it now.

University students must speak out against injustice and corruption, I don't see who else can do it. Seriously something must be done about this?

Somare, if Shinzo Abe, Mark Latham and Richard Nixon did it, I see no reason why you can't unless you think that you can get away with it because PNGean's are very tolerant.

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There is so little rural development taking place precisely because so much money is being stolen in Waigani.

The NGOs SHOULD focus on Port Moresby awareness, since this is where most of the stealing is taking place.

Not only that, the NGOs should focus on top level corruption, such as the blatent disregard of PNG law under the Moti affair. Because the buck always stops at the top, and Somare is the person who is accountable for all ineptness taking place underneath him.

That's why in other countries (but not PNG), high level politicians whose underlings engage in corruption often resign in shame themselves, because they accept their responsibility - just the normal responsibility one would expect national leaders to accept.