I wish he'd stop wearing those giligili eyeglasses!

Thursday, December 1, 2011
Basil spotlights Sir Arnold’s legal inconsistencies
Basil: Stop preying
National Planning and Monitoring Minister Honourable Sam Basil has called on former Chief Justice and Governor of Madang Sir Arnold Amet to stop “preying” on judges’ ‘emotions and opinions’.

Mr Basil said that Sir Arnold should realise that he is no longer on the bench as the Chief Justice but a Politician and a member of the Opposition.

“His continuous media circus is not only contemptuous but subjudicial to the pending Supreme Court Decision on the validity of the events of August 2 in Parliament,” he said referring to Parliament’s declaration of vacancy and election of Ialibu MP Peter O’Neill as Prime Minister.

“Let the Judges do their job and stop preying on their emotions and opinions,“ an incensed Mr Basil said.

“The insinuations that he is portraying through the media pre-empts the outcome of the Supreme Court decision and such does not paint a good picture on the independence of the Judiciary. He talks as if the Judiciary is in his steal pocket. That is contemptuous and subjudice,” the Minister said.

Mr Basil, Bulolo MP, said that Sir Arnold seems to enjoy conducting trial by media with full page advertorial in the newspapers, setting out his legal arguments as he does it over and over again.


“It is surprising that he has all of a sudden become the self appointed guardian angel of the Constitution,” he said.

“Some one should look back and see that not too long ago, the following happened:
Inconsistent?

He allowed the nomination of Sir Paulus Matane as the Governor General at the eligibility vote stage, directly breaching the Constitution which was later nullified by the Supreme Court, and had a senior Statesman in the likes of Sir Paulus walking off the public life disgracefully.

He was part of the Somare-led Government’s unexplained adjournment of Parliament Sittings, yet said nothing about the Constitutional requirements as affirmed by a majority Supreme Court ruling of which he was the sole dissenting one.

He was a part of the Cabinet that delayed and frustrated the appointment of two medical doctors on the medical condition of Sir Michael Somare for more than three months. Effectively the Country was without a permanent chief executive officer for more than three months but Sir Arnold would not arise to defend the spirit of the Constitution.

He even attacked the Judiciary just to protect the former kitchen cabinet ministers who were suspended by the Supreme Court pending their leadership tribunal. Now he is becoming the best buddy for the judiciary, making representations as if he had secured the Supreme Court Decision in his favour.

He was the controversial legal advisor to the previous government, protecting and advocating the cause of corrupt politicians within government, which was the cause of frustrations that led to the change of government. His controversial advice and the heavy reliance on it by the Former Prime Minister and Grand Chief Sir Michael Somare cost the old man his political carrier, loss of the Prime Ministership and finally the dishonourable dismissal from Parliament.

Mr Basil added: “May I remind him to check his hands whether it’s clean before crying foul at the current O’Neill/Namah Government that is trying to address the immediate needs of our people that had been neglected by the previous government.

“We respect the Judiciary to make its own decisions and we as Government will manage the consequences. The Judges are Papua New Guineans and they live in Papua New Guinea. Please leave them alone to do their job.”
PNGBLOGS

Shut up Basil! You and Shawty NPF Thief O'Neill be hiding under your wife's long skirts on Friday, December 9. (Sick of these half-cast clowns!)

I'm sick of those mixed races too. I wanna see FULL BLOODED PNG CORRUPTION back in style - please, ladies and gentlemen, let's welcome back....

T H E S O M A R E F A M I L Y !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


Hooray! Hooooooray!!!! Hoooooooooooooooooorrrrraaaaaaayyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Sam,here in Wau we are proud of you.Continue to speak out against things you think are wrong and be proud of your heritage.Your family are very proud of you!

You weren't supporting him too much here on scape when you were running against him in the last election. In fact you were pretty negative about him.

I wasn't too negative about him and my supporters gave him the second preference.
I do concede though that I should never have run against him as he turned out to be the better leader.This has been proven only since he got elected and delivered well.Prior to being elected we didn't know whether or not he would be a good leader although I probably knew him better than most.Power can affect people in different ways.
I am not a racist and I deplore the way some of you carry on about skin colour and particularly the prejudice a lot of you have against mixed-race people.I need not go in to how you feel about white skins as a lot of them don't feel good about you guys either.This I feel is very sad and they actually feel I am a bit of a nut case because I treat you as equals but that is the way I was brought up and that is the way I have chosen to live my life.

I still don't understand how this supposedly ethical MP by the name of Sam Basil, who always speaks out against corruption, could have voted for a known corrupt MP to become our PM (the first in history that a known corrupt person has been elected as PNG's leader).

He betrayed all his principles by doing that. I was shocked at his hypocrisy.

Meri Wau, if you don't know the answer to this question, could you at least pass it on that more than a few of Hon Basil's FORMER supporters now feel he was a sell out and destroyed what otherwise could have been a social movement behind the man that was pure and without any hint of corruption.

Hon Basil will now carry the hint of corruption to his grave because he voted for the corrupt O'Neill.

I cannot speak for Sam but I did ask him this myself.
Look at it this way.He was faced with two choices
(1.Do I stay with the people I respect(Sir MM and Bart P) and move with them to make a Govt that can have a serious chance to fight against corruption and continue to fight for what we stand for or
(2.Do I join with the Somares etc and be a total sellout to everything I have spoken about and believe in?Remember that there is no middle of the road here.You have to be with either the Govt or the Opposition
True,supporting the Speaker in his completely unethical behaviour was wrong but all along the previous Govt had used the Speaker for their own unethical means and all this shows is that we have a Speaker who has completely destroyed the respect for the House.
On the other hand,surely the means justified the end in this case.

Wrong, meri wau. It is possible to be a middle bencher and some MPs have purposely sat in the middle to show their displeasure at both sides. Not joining the government hardly would have meant that Sam Basil was on the Somare side.

You would have to be the biggest fukhead on Scape!! What does skin colour have to do with anything you kok! Corruption isnt about skin colour or your heritage!! So fukoff with your racist fukhead thinking and grow tha fuk up!

...and you,young man have a foul mouth and cannot even spell.

Meri Wau welcome to the real world where people actually swear. Blow me!

Buddy Arnold Amet and Somare family will have heart attack AFTER that day because The National Parliament speaker has the power on the floor of parliament IF THE COURT RULES NULL AND VOID OF ONIEL/NAMA GOVERNMENT!!!! Its about time we dismentle Somare family rule. Sam basil and others are full blooded PNGan. The person who make racial discrimination should go and live in South Africa. PNG is multicultural country and everyone ,REGARDLESS OF SKIN COLOUR and their country of origin , has the right to live in this beautiful country ,PNG!!!!! somare family promotes sepiks and family friends during the last 10 years of the NA regime. What have they done in terms of infratruction development in the country? Nil!!!


Insert cut and paste from last Fridays National paper if you had not read it.
Source:
The National, Friday 02nd December 2011
By JEFFREY ELAPA
NATIONAL Parliament Speaker Jeffery Nape has denied receiving K15 million as claimed recently by former attorney-general Sir Arnold Amet.
Nape, through his chief of staff Joe Bulage, said he had no knowledge of any payment made to him and called on Sir Arnold to reveal details of the payment.
Nape said it was unbecoming of a former chief justice and senior statesman to go public with statements without providing evidence.
Nape described the allegation as the work of desperate people with motives to discredit and tarnish his reputation and of the new-look service delivery-orientated government which he had engineered to install.
He said the opposition was using the situation and the East Sepik court reference to lure members into forming a government
“If the court decides otherwise, the floor of the parliament will still determine the government,’’ Nape said.
“And, since the current government has the numbers, it will continue to remain in office. Therefore, Sir Arnold and his desperate opposition members should stop playing cheap politics to tarnish a government that is weeding out corruption at all levels.”
He urged Sir Arnold to provide evidence of the payment with cheque butts, bank details and other particulars.

Ol manmeri igat liklik kru kokonat lo het blo ol na toktok istap na bagarapim arapela wantok ya yu lusim kompiuta na go wok garden na stap.mi no save wanem kain toktok yu laik wokim lo hia. go plai mud game
wantaim ol pikinini lo strit blo yu.

senisim pasin blo yu longlong man or meri yu wokim displa toktok.

I guess being alive for more than 40 years gives me the benefit of hind sight. I remember the very first war against corruption began in the 1980s.

In 1988, 89, 90 and 91 a whole lot of us went onto the streets to protest and support the war on corruption. In 1991, there was a massive move by government against corruptiom also in 1996, 2001, 2006 and now in 2011.

The only difference I see is that this government's sweep team is targeting members of the opposition. This is the most vicious and vengeful attack on an opposition, I have ever seen since independence. For years, some of us have argued about the need for an independent commission against corruption. No one is interested in supporting it.

My prediction: nothing in the environment has changed, our systems our weak and our processes have been shot and circumvented by about 90% of our elected leaders (including Parkop, Oneil, etc, etc). So come 2012, corruption will still be here, happily spreading its tentacles. If it has not already entangled your precious MP already, it soon will.

There is nothing sustainable about this lame effort to fight corruption and it is also happening in 2011. I wonder why?

So Meri Wau, fight against corruption? Grow up please. Some of us have been around a long time and cannot be fooled as easily.

December 9 (2011) will change EVERYTHING!

Yeah, right. We'll change from the corrupt ONeil to the corrupt Somare. Big change.

Perhaps I have missed the point.
The fight against corruption will probably never end and will probably never be won but does this mean that you allow people to continue to strip the country of its assets for their own nefarious means or do you speak out and try to influence people that what is happening is wrong?
This is just like the fight against drugs,crime and good over evil-never gets won!The Goodies never defeat the Baddies but you don't give up and become a Baddie.
I am not about to get in to an argument as to who has been fighting corruption for longer than who but lets just say that I have been fighting,in my own small way,for longer than you have been alive.I will never see the end but will never give in either.
I do believe in karma though and do believe that what goes around comes around.You just have to live long enough to see it!

What you're saying is that you're not only one of the lazy bums who won't stand up against corruption but you're happy to let everyone else sit on their arses too. The reason why PNG is one of the relatively few countries where corruption is getting worse is because we won't actually stand up against the corrupt. We let them rule us, we don't force them to play by OUR rules. Thanks to people like you. You're basically a worm who digs through the soil to get as far away from controversy as you can.

Other countries have turned their corruption problems around. Why? Because the citizens fight. Not like us.

Sir Amet is very grumpy and speaking with no sense becasue he has been declared by a professional doctor to be in menopause peiod.

tell him to go holday in madang and visit his new wife who is in prison right now at beon accused of murder.

this man has so much in his mind and is pouring all on the new govt.

shame on you amet.

Obviously you don't know me.All of my life i have taken an active stand against corruption,amongst other things but in the course of all this I was twice widowed and had to earn a living.I never did learn though to shut my mouth when I felt something was not right.This has not earned me a lot of friends although I do have a lot of friends.I would like to think that they are all honest people but my efforts are put in to keeping my own nose clean and trying to influence the people around me who may not know better.The police have always refused to give me any protection or to investigate what may have been any serious complaints I may have hadThis is often been because they are the more obvious ones I have spoken out against.Believe me,I have been shot at several times,robbed at gun point,stabbed and had my business premises broken in to over 20 times,had several of my daughters raped and my husband was murdered.This they did have to investigate but it did not happen in Wau.
I think I have passed all of my tests and amazingly I am still quite sane.
I cannot believe that you would think I would let any whiff of corruption past me without a fight and I have never even bribed someone at a road-block in an attempt to get home quickly.
I am sure I must have some friends out there who would agree that this is all true......

Meri Wau, I am sorry to hear about your tragedies. That is really sad.

My concern is that if you expend scarce resources inorder to achieve some end, I am of the view that some positive, sustainable outcome needs to be reached that justifies the expenditure.

I have watched too much money spent by numerous governments that have brought us nowhere.

The fight against corruption in its current form to me, represents a great waste of time and of course the timing is a little too convenient for me. As I said, this issue hots up at election time and after the writs are returned, the issue cools down for 4 more years.

None of the current politicians, including your MP, is remotely interested in fixing the structural problems that allow corruption to flourish and be as healthy as ever. After the sweep team (whose team leader is a close friend and ally of your MP, worst kept secret in Waigani), has caught and jailed the 33 people under watch, then what? I bet you any money that another 33 will simply step in and do the same thing all over.

I know for a fact that in PNG crime pays and it pays very well. Some of your roads in Lae for instance, have been built at a cost of around K10.0m per kilometer (I have a copy of the report into the Lae roads fiasco), asphalt roads only cost about K1.0m per kilometer. I now know of a road in NCD which will cost the state K26.0m/km. The Poreporena freeway cost about K7.0m/km and they had to cut through a mountain to build it. This new contract was let by the Oneil/Namah government.

So what have you achieved? Nothing. Do the ends justify the means? ......

Sorry to rain on the parade. I am a result oriented person and I can't see how jailing one lot of criminals inorder to allow another lot of criminals (who are friendly to the regime) to have their day in the sun, resolves this problem.

I have not really achieved much but you know I can sleep soundly at night as I know I have never been tainted by corruption at any time and I know that I have helped out when I could.
Don't worry about my tragedies,you probably couldn't imagine half of it,this is all a part of life and a part of being involved,if that's how you would like to put it.
The fight against corruption could never be won whilst there is still one single corrupt person left but this doesn't mean that you put down your bundle and give up.As a parent,or a brother or sister or just even as a concerned person,you continue to do what you think is the "right thing" and hope that along the way you manage to influenece someone else.People around here still lie and steal but out of respect,they don't do it in front of me.Just that same as somewhere else on one of these boards someone said to me "Welcome to the real world where people do swear".Of course people swear-I do it myself when the occassion warrants it -but around here,people don't swear in front of me and if they do ,they apologise.
If this is respect then at least I have taught them that there is a time and a place for everything.

We know you're a good person - even a great person - even though we give you a hard time sometimes! :-)

Peace!

Thanks then you probably also know why I always come to Sam Basil's defence but you know,I wouldn't defend him if I didn't believe in him and my daughters and I also say to him "do the right thing Sam as we are all watching you".We are very harsh judges.
You also probably know that as a woman I am a pretty insidious enemy..and as a woman,I have a big mouth.

Hi Meri Wau,

As I said, cosmetics do not impress me at all. Maybe my standards are just a tad high.

The other serious issue I have with everyone in this government (and to some extent the previous government) is that there appears to be no line they will not cross.

Take for instance the incidents of 2nd August ... I can't forgive anyone for urinating on sacred ground. How can you break the constitution at one point and later argue that you are doing it for the good of the people? I lost my respect for all 70 individual MPs who did that. You either respect the whole constitution or you don't. One cannot selectively "use" the constitution for their own gain. To me such an act is an indication of serious psycological flaws in the make up of those involved.

As leaders or educated persons, we must be very wary of belittling the constitution because when we do, we send a clear message to those who are not educated about our true feelings for the law. Its not what you say that's important, its what you do.

I am simply amazed by the tendency of MPs on both sides of the house to try to out do each other not in the amount of good they could do but in the amount of evil they can stoop to.

MPs on both sides of the house actually believe that just because they are elected, they hold a position higher than the constitution! What a load of rubbish! Papua New Guinea is a creation of the constitution, parliament is a creation of the constitution ... I could go on.

This is the basest, most flagrant of all corruption because when one embezzles money, you are committing a crime, when you seek every way and means under the sun to work your way around the constitution, you are in essence, killing the spirit of the nation. No amount of good you do later will ever make amends for this because the collective soul of the people has now been effectively poisoned.

Mangi Abelam, if users of this site and citizens of PNG could speak with true conviction and reverence as good as you, PNG's democratic government would definately flourish and its citizens prosper. Very well said!

Brata, If you think this is the first government to break the constitution, then you've been asleep.

Let's start with the constitutional provision of fairness and equality to underpin everything the government does.

That's part of the constitution's mama lo. Yet that part was broken almost from the moment Julius Chan became PM the first time and started enrichening himself from his position as PM.

"PNG is multicultural country and everyone ,REGARDLESS OF SKIN COLOUR and their country of origin , has the right to live in this beautiful country ,PNG!!!!!"


First of all, poro, have you ever heard of visas and visa expiration dates? Everyone does NOT have the right to live here.

Second, your kind of open door policy has also opened the door to the flood of wealth leaving our country, at the same time as all the spivs in the world come into our country.

Happy?

JEFFERY NAPE RULES PNG AND NOT CORRUPT JUDICERY WITH THIEF JUSTICE SALOME INJA

You are a fool if you think that any of these people are worth respecting. They're all corrupt, with Somare and O'Neill at the top of the list.
The only people who have the most power these days in PNG are those who buy that power through corrupt deals and stolen money. Nape will switch sides to king kong tomorrow if the gorilla pays him enough. He has no ethics.

BUDDY THEY ARE ALL NOT WORTH RESPECT BUT AT LEASE CORRUPT NAPE AND O NIEL DUMPED CORRUPT GRAND THIEF SOMARE AND DISMENTLED HIS THRONE AND FAMILY EMPIRE!

Good morning my fellow law-abiding citizens who respect and believe in the rule of law and the Constitution of the Sovereign State of Papua New Guinea

Take heed that the Head of the Commonwealth Queen Elizabeth II has stated from Buckingham Palace that she recognizes the legitimate government of the Prime Minister Grand Chief Sir Michael Somare.

I would recommend Dishonorable O'Neill and his merry men of thieves to prepare for Election 2012 rather than play on the minds of the urban minority and the law enforcement body (Police) with cash handouts. O'Neill should rather prove himself at the Ballet box and bring in the PNC party numbers like The Grand Chief did with NA. Desperate but your time to answer IS COMING. SOMARE is wise and does not jump up and down like you lot. He gave birth to this country and he will return it STILL in tact.

Thank you.

LONG LIVE THE CONSTITUTION AND DEMOCRACY!!!

The Patriot "Mr Constitution"

The queen has said nothing of the kind and besides, we can do what a majority of Australians have wanted to do for years and simply signore the queen.

Notice that hardly anyone supports you anymore? Probably because they're realistic while you've still got your head up in the clouds.

Mr Const was politely asked to stop the NOISE about his constitution nonsense. what is now happening is REAL....

waite stone...

Mr Constitution's only nonsense is to believe that the majority will lift a finger to uphold the constitution at this point. However Mr Constitution is spot on that the O'Neill government is totally illegal. What Mr Constitution refuses to see with his own eyes is that most Papua New Guineans seem to be more comfortable with the NPF thieving scoundrel O'Neill as PM rather than the ultimate Grand Thief Somare as PM. Maybe the reason is that Arthur is on the Somare side and is the worst thing since pekpek was invented.

Better 1 thief at the head of our government than 2 or more!