The gang of thieves have arrived back at parliament house.the new younger pm oniell being trained by the most corrupt pm in history sir j chan and his bagboi carrier ben micah does not ogre well for good governance in png.then we have pious wingtips holding hands with chan and peter oniell trying to introduce another anti corruption body as if to tell png citizens that he is an anti corruption campaigner? come now mr oniell, do you really think educated informed citizens really believe you are not a crook? people just go with you becos you hold a position of power and are too scared to talk out but soonest the pendulum swings against you like the somare regime, youll be hung by your red ball bearings like they did to the lapun.notice that you gave your mate pruatich the forestry ministry again.more dirty timber deals and underground payoffs and singapore accounts coming up and ofcourse, raising funds for pnc and ppp.whats new? no wonder expats and experts are quietly sitting out and praying that you and your gang of theives will be caught soon so someone decent can lead png again.old hands like bart philemon have been bought by oniell and sir mek has finally found an honest respectable understudy for the png party in belden namah! yeah right! get the drift? we r all pretty f up with this country gone back to the dogz.
love live oniell and wingtips! long live sir j chan & boibag carrier ben micah.weve gone backwwards guyz.
chan is at it again konning the national govt that he has introduced free education in new ireland and everybody should kiss his lapun boney ***! boooolshiiit chan.free education has failed in new ireland.we beg waigani to travel to nips and audit the free education policy.nobody has ever checked chans claims.its all lies.55% of schools in 2011 did not recieve their subsidies.olgeta poret lo tok out becos noel levi has threated all headmasters that anyone compalining will not receive nex years moni (even though they never received previous years!).more ppp ******** as usual.
Ben Micah is one of the smartest political strategist I believe but if has used his advantage to do the corrupt thing is not good but for good of this country then it would be appreciated.
Can we papua new guineans pls stop and think clearly and stop being cheated by politicians like ben micah.goodness me, when he was kvg mp from 1992-1997 he completely corrupted his district support grant of K1.5 million he recived then.we in kavieng never saw that money, its benefits nor aquitals.when micah was mp he travelled home 5 times in 5 years.xmas to spend with his wives.not his people.
1. during his term he bought a new house at ela beach costing k1.2 million.where did he get the money from? he abused his dsg funds by giving to his family members and political cronies like tony matautu and gillis who in turn gave it back to him to buy the house.our house!
2. he bought a barge for k700,000.00.when micah was dumped in 1997, martin aini investigated the cost of the boat and the supplier in brisbane quoted $55,000 to build a new one! rest of the money was used to buy his new printing business in port moresby.
3. his printing business went broke after the ombudsman commision directed govt depts not to use micahs business because his quotes were twice everyones elses because he had to give kikbeks to his sleazy corrupt public servants.
4.finally pngbc took micah to court and declared him bankrupt.he was bankrupt from 1999-2009, yet he stood for 2 elections when he wasnt qualified to do so completely disregarding the rule of law and showing his disdain for ethical or moral standards.
5. in 1999 micah was appointed chairman of IPBC and was sacked by mekere after 11 months for spending (stealing) K2.5 million renovating his small office at pom city.
the above examples are but the tip of the iceburg of what ben micah has corruptly done in the past 15 years.now that he has corruptly won the elections, he will be taken to court by martin aini for bribery and illegal camapigning which will all come out in public.
finally, ben micah will be dismissed by the court of disputed returns because he failed to register himself for the 2012 elections and bribed john kasinga to allow him to contest and vote by hand writing his name on the common roll.thats ben miac for you.corrupt.greedy.stupid & adulterous.
It makes you wonder how oniell thinks and how julius chan thinks to appoint a person with such a disgusting background.the fact he even considers to stand for election obviously shows he has no respect for societys standards nor the moral values of the people he fooled to vote for him.obviously he won bribing key voters and leaders.good christians would never allow such a corrupt person to be an MP let alone minister.
i have little respect left for peter oniell and so called sir julius chan.you r all eveil people and shouldnt even call yourselves leaders.you are controlled by satanic powers of the underground caves.
There is 1 rule for little people and 1 for big (fat) people.ben allan micah was not registerd on the 2012 electoral roll.when he voted at lakuramau community school, mr freeman was bribed K5000.00 cash to allow ben to vote and john kasinga K65,000.00 to allow ben micah to register as a candidate.thousands of new irelanders were turned away from the polling booths because their names were not on the common roll, yet out of towners like micah fly in breach electorol laws and are given special consideration simply bcos they bribe.all kvg people are fully aware of what when on and which public servants will be investigated.especially discussions the next day at lakuramau police station.derol jee has taken micah to court and we will see micah summarily dismissed shortly.
ALL OF PAPUA NEW GUINEA IS CORRUPT FROM TOP TO BOTTOM. IN PAPUA NEW GUINEA WHEN SOMEONE COMPLAINS ABOUT ANOTHER PERSON BEING CORRUPT WHAT HE REALLY MEANS TO SAY IS, "I AM JEALOUS BECAUSE THAT GUY GOT A BETTER DEAL THAN ME!"
HOW CAN YOU FIX SUCH A PROBLEM!
TALK = WASTE OF TIME.
The way you fix such a problem is by harnessing pasin blo jelas in a positive way. How do you do that? You set up protection for whistleblowers and you provide easy ways for them to spell the beans anonymously. That way, the truths about other people's corruption comes out and can be prosecuted.
Don't think PNG is different than other parts of the world in terms of the basic problems. The difference is how we handle our problems. The way we tend to handle our problems tends to be short term and superficial. We reap what we sow.
The way you fix such a problem is by harnessing pasin blo jelas in a positive way. How do you do that? You set up protection for whistleblowers and you provide easy ways for them to spell the beans anonymously. That way, the truths about other people's corruption comes out and can be prosecuted.
Don't think PNG is different than other parts of the world in terms of the basic problems. The difference is how we handle our problems. The way we tend to handle our problems tends to be short term and superficial. We reap what we sow.
Ben Micah and the orther theives that just love our national purse all have 5 long years to steal as much as they can wihout being caught. Knowing fully well who they were, we voted for them.
That is what we wanted and, so be it. Forget the ani-corruption crap.
So whats new? sly blokes like ben micah simply exploited the system for their own personal gains in the name of politcs under ppp that old tired party run amok as a quasi family business.micah has just been announced on radio new ireland as still being insolvent so the boy should never have been allowed to contest.again, cash paid to corrupt kavieng public servants to just brush aside the law.the big bang is when the courts throw him about for not being registered but thats in 2015 and by then ben micah has milked kaviengs dsip into his singapore account to fund his 1000 room internation resort on his island at emira.sound familiar?
PETER ONEILL’S GREATEST CHALLENGE AS PRIME MINISTER OF PNG.
Our moments of triumph on the Olympic stage have not been many, so full marks to our Toea Wisil for her recent triumph on track and field. We have had our moments over the last 37 years in the regional sporting events like the Commonwealth Games, the Arafura Games, the South Pacific and the Mini South Pacific Games, but Wisil’s qualifying run was something special. Its significance will be held in our collective memories for a long time, as her personal triumph is part of history as a nation.
In an Olympic year, we are once again contemplating playing host to the next South Pacific Games and the government (especially the previous ONeill-Namah political Leadership) has not been serious about what is and what ought to have been a matter of priority and pride to prepare necessary infrastructure for the event. The nation is about to face its moment of truth on the regional and international stage but we are way behind in our preparations, and so far treated this event as a political afterthought. Our lack of preparations must necessarily be viewed as a measure of our own awareness and pride in ourselves. It is a measure of the way we have gone off-course in terms of focussing our people and our leaders on matters other than that of national interest and national importance. It is a measure of the way we have lost our way as a nation, preoccupied with politics, the demands of enclave type developments like the LNG, and forgotten about being a country, about nationhood, and about what the national interest requires of us. It is a measure of the way we have lost our own sovereignty in favour of serving others’ interests, including personal interests.
We are about to reveal once again for all to see what we have been about for the last 37 years, at least since the last time we hosted the Games here. At least we had a Sir Anthony Siaguru to lead us out with a committee of equally talented people, showcased and acquitted well of the nation they represented. Oh how the red gold and black fluttered in the steady South-Westerly, and our hearts were instantaneously lifted to greater heights of exuberance, as our athletes triumphed. We could believe once again in ourselves, and the social contract we signed in 1975 to be one nation, one people and one country. And oh how we triumphed then, hauling in more gold silver and bronze than ever before, or since! Every Kiwai, Tolai, Highlander, Wopa, Siwai, Orokaiva, Orokolo, Sol and Tasi walked out of that stadium, proud, and rightfully so. We savoured those precious few shared moments of triumph with tears streaming down our faces. We looked at each other wide eyed and teary faced, and we laughed tears of joy and elation, and gently swayed to the fading strands of John Wong’s voice “Papua New Guinea… one people, one country...”as we walked out, confident and sure of ourselves.
We knew we will always be one people, a people cast together by history, a people held together by our ancient agrarian ways, thrust almost prematurely into the limelight of 21st Century to sink or swim, live or die. Together we chose life. And but whilst the odds were always staked against us, and some called us stone aged primitives, while others whispered,”… they won’t make it...”, it is in rare moments of sporting triumph like this, pitted against their best, on a clear sky blue days and on level playing fields, we have come together and asserted resoundingly that we have arrived on the world’s centre stage!
We have asserted that we are an ancient people, a strong people, the largest nation in the Pacific Islands and the land link between the tiger economies of Asia and the Pacific. We are the pre-historic home of Melanesia. We are a serious people, and we shall be taken seriously by our other Melanesian, Polynesian and Micronesian neighbours. Whether they like it or not, whether they like our way of doing things or not, we are here and we will assert ourselves, and assert we did at that and every other SP Game since.
Who would have predicted how we would turn out as a nation and a people in 1973 when we were granted Self Government so hurriedly by the Gorton/Whitlam Governments of Canberra?
In the early 70s on the occasion of a South Pacific Commission Meeting held in the capital of one of our Polynesian countries, the Paramount Chief of the Chimbu people, and he may as well have been the Paramount Chief of all the Highlanders, because he was a tall towering and imposing Simbu, who stood as tall as the mountains, and firm as his native rock of Elimbari, stood up and spoke. Whenever he spoke in his native setting, his dozen wives and multitudes upon multitudes of tribes men far and near came and drank of his words in utter silence, words that echoed like a thousand waterfalls and flowed seamlessly like the Waghi, giving life to a deeply farrowed land. But this time, his solemn maiden Chiefly address to the South Pacific Commission in tok pisin was openly mocked. Perhaps it was because of his earnest but equally farrowed facial features. Perhaps it was because he didn’t understand a word of English and could not speak any. Even perhaps it was because they couldn’t understand him at all with his typical highlands big-manly animations. He did look like someone out of the stone-age, but his heart was earnest and his composure sure and demeanour true. Notwithstanding, he felt the mocking laughter deeply, like the bitter stings of a thousand wasps buzzing around his head. He couldn’t speak English. Realizing, from the laughter and the polite nods that he had just become the laughing stock of the Pacific, and realizing he carried with him not only the pride of the Narengu tribe of Chimbu, but also the pride of history of his fathers and that of the then Territories of Papua and New Guinea he represented, Kondom Agaunduo slowly raised his hand as if to brush the wafting wasps away, allowed the laughter to subside, and spoke in slow deliberate pisin and uttered those famous lines… ” yupela harim ah! Nau mi kam long hia na toktok na yupela lap long mi. Em I orait. Tomoro bai mi salim ol pikinini bilong mi i kam. Taim ol I kam, bai yupela ino nap lap long ol! “ With that he sat down, and never spoke again.
Paramount Chief Kondom Agaunduo now lies in silent repose in his village on the side of the Highway named after an equally imposing political force of the Simbu people. Kondom was a man before his time. He was a Chief and Luluai, a cultural hero who brought progress to Chimbu in the early colonial period. He was the first Simbu coffee grower, father of the Chimbu Coffee Cooperative, Member of the District Advisory Council, Observer to the First Legislative Council in Port Moresby. Before his premature death from a car accident, he was truly a pioneer who craved education and progress for his people so that they could meet or match the whiteman, a man without pigs, on his own terms, and triumph. He was resolute and uncompromising in this cause. His leadership, punctuated by long eloquent speeches, was impeccable. There was no ounce of self interest in his cause. His cause was that of every Chimbu to advance.
Our few moments of triumph on the sporting fields have been shared together, as highlanders, Momases, NGIs and Papuans- groupings that came as we tried to define ourselves along our natural geographic regions. Yet these groupings sit very un-comfortably with our own assertion and notion as one people and one nation. Today we have indeed become one people and one nation naturally in a way we could never have openly predicted-with complex intermarriages. Even when corporate greed threatened to blow us apart, and it did for many years for thousands on Bougainville, one man, a soldier and a national hero from Karkar Island, stood up and defied all odds to put a stop to the blood bath that was about to unfold, and held us together. He underwent a period of self-examination and self-assessment for some time, and after all that was done, he stood up, and he stood by the oath he took before God and man to protect the Constitution, his nation, his people in Bougainville and on the mainland. He realized in time that if he didn’t stand up, he would by his conduct have revoked the Constitutional framework that held us together as a people, and cut adrift the people of Bougainville. He defied vulgar political direction and greedy corporate puppetry from outside. When Jerry Singirok triumphed personally over the evil that was about to be served, a chalice of blood, a slaughter that appeared inevitable, the whole nation triumphed. We all exhaled in great shared relief! Whew!
Many a child who was born in the 1980s, educated to feel equally eloquent and masters of their own destiny, deserving of a great future in this country, find themselves having to invariably come to terms with political legacies and historical events like Bougainville, constantly nagging at them with them having to ask themselves this question- what was all that about? The mothers of Bougainville, who survived, who suffered through loss of their own sons, daughters and husbands, are still asking that very question to this day.
While the fallen soldiers were draped in the red black and gold, the fallen in Bougainville lie scattered all over those islands of sorrow, and their spirits still wander unrequited. Deep down, every mother in Bougainville still ask, why did the nation turn its guns on our sons? Why did Bougainville become the Islands of sorrow? Can we as a nation triumph together in sporting fields like the coming SP Games and in other spheres if we do not deal with Bougainville, look at our brother in the eye and honestly feel the same blood pulsating through our veins?
How can we explain Bougainville to our children that they, as intelligent human beings with inquisitive minds, can make sense of it? How can the fatherless and the motherless children of Bougainville who also struggle daily with their permanent condition be consoled? And how do they further explain it to their children?
We cannot explain Bougainville, the shedding of innocent blood, the birthing of an Island of orphans and widows, in any other way than the sense of corporate greed, and blatant disregard for human lives and the rights of human beings by so called civilized nations, acting secretively through off-balance sheet black ops operatives. No one has gone behind the scenes to expose the people behind the people in Sandline. Faceless men in glass steel and concrete towers in faraway lands, powerful governments and their operatives, use money and influence and do deals and sign papers that instantaneously spill the blood innocent people all over the world. It was the South Americas yesterday, and today it is the Middle-East, with Africa the ongoing playground of those who want to pawn off the lives of the starving innocent using contentions of old tribal rifts and religious differences as convenient divisive tools. The death of the cold war has spawned new wars, wars that relate directly to control and exploitation of scarce resources and energy fields that will see the rise and re-ordering of civilisation as we know.
While those who conceived Sandline have long melted into the shadows, governments involved quickly cut off connections, wiped the paper trail and electronic footprints leading to their doorsteps, shredded the papers and claimed both ignorance and innocence; the Queen sits with a solemn smile on her throne in England, while the Kangaroos still graze peacefully on the brown meadows of Australia. Long gone are the sounds of machine guns and echoes of the cries of children looking for their mothers. Today, they come with bundles of Aid money to “help” the people of Bougainville. It’s the re-building and restoration program that they in their magnanimous generosity bestow on Bougainville that comes, but not necessarily without strings. How wonderfully generous the help is to us with roads that may one day carry our copper and gold out again, and ports that may see ships bearing all manner of colours once more berth, but let us not even contemplate that for now.
For now, having put up his hand for Sumkar and lost to an Australian Naturalized citizen, Jerry Singirok, sits back on his Island home to contemplate and take stock of his gains and losses, his friends and his foes, especially those who pretended to be friends but were really against him. He savours the sting of deception, like that of a thousand urchins. No war would have prepared him for this public admonition and rejection. In the 2012 elections, more so than ever before, the Australian Defence and intelligence played a very heavy hand, and made no secret about the fact of who Canberra wants installed as the new Prime Minister. Jerry Singirok of all people was in a better position to know and understand what was really at stake. He also knows how during the Commission of Inquiry into Sandline, he, along with several other public servants, were made public scapegoats by powerful people and powerful governments behind Sandline, to wipe their own footprints, as they melted into the dark.
On the 2nd of August 2011, Australia engineered the disposal of Somare while he was in Hospital. They used ONeill’s ambition, Nape’s greed and Namah’s stupidity to bludgeon Somare. Then when the courts were called upon to intervene by a Supreme Court Reference, Julia Gillard used a political bulldozer to smash down the gates of our Judicial system and our Constitution, by openly recognizing Peter ONeill as Prime Minister! She pre-empted the Supreme Court, the sole arbiter under the Constitution to deal with the then pending question of legitimacy of Peter ONeill as Prime Minister.
Australia has always advocated the importance of the rule of law, and the importance of having an independent judiciary as the backstop of our democracy in Papua New Guinea. Except on this occasion Australia threw all that out the window. When it suited Australia’s strategic economic and political purposes, even the ideals of rule of law, governance, transparency, accountability and principles of democratic government were readily flushed down the toilet by Australia. Gillard used her High Commissioner, Ian Kemish, tons of money, and the full swag of intelligence tools at her disposal, including the complicity of the Post Courier, to push for Peter ONeill, however constitutionally illegitimate that was.
Australia was instrumental in the smashing of the Constitution and the judiciary of Papua New Guinea, the two most important institutions that birthed this nation and gave it its soul, its sacred sanctity and sovereignty, and its separate identity as a separate people and a separate nation in the South Pacific. The judiciary is the watchdog that guards the Constitution. The Constitution is like a vial that contains the essential DNA of Papua New Guinea, the largest nation of Melanesian people on God’s earth. If you destroy the Constitution and its watch dog, you destroy a nation, and the rest becomes history.
Prior to and during the elections, Australia moved its people into key positions within the Electoral Commission, and even brought in its military and SAS veterans from Iraq and Afghanistan to run a separate communications and operations capability parallel to the PNG security forces. All this was done to ensure one result- Peter ONeill to form the next government. Immediately after ONeill was declared winner of the Ialibu-Pangia seat by beating his nearest rival by 45,000 votes, Ian Kemish moved a whole company of Australian Army specialists into the Airways Hotel where ONeill team was holed up, as a show of alliance, and as a Personal VIP Protective Unit in full combat gear, against anything that ONeill’s brother Belden Namah would throw. It was an open show of strength. The Australian Army under Gillard moved huge amounts of firearms into PNG and into the Airways Hotel on secret Australian Airforce Fights. They made sure ONeill knew he was under the Australian army protection, and that he owed his rather “unusual landslide election win” to them.
It was a job well done for Ian Kemish, who unlike any other High Commissioner before him, was prepared to get his hands dirty, and do some of the work himself. As a diplomat, he has trod where even angels wouldn’t dare. What a brave man this Ian Kemish is, for he has successfully and almost singlehandedly displayed the full length and breadth of the power of Australia over Papua New Guinea politics. He has shown other diplomats in almost resounding terms, who owns this country! And for this he would have earned a long and well deserved holiday somewhere in Europe, and for sure almost endless career possibilities with the Commonwealth. It was a job well done in any one’s language.
Somare and other elder statesmen have played the only card they could play under the circumstances. But their card no longer carries any personal ambitions. They have been there and done that. There is no anger or resentment left in Chan, Somare or even Wingti. They have measured ambitions, which involve issues of what form or shape of legacy will they all and each leave for this nation. How will they be remembered after they pass? Each one of them has had a by-pass operation. Each is living on time that has been graciously extended to them. And each of them has known what it is like to have and hold power, exercise power, and what a heady thing that is!
The real issue for Somare Chan and Wingti, and others of the elder Statesmen around ONeill , is how much of the love for the RED GOLD & BLACK can they impart to Peter ONeill and get him away from the charms of money, wealth, fame and more fortune promised to him by those who now like cicadas whisper incessantly into his ears. To be sure, Papua New Guineans know the deals O’Neill has done over the years. We also know his various businesses that are run openly and under other people’s names. We also know of his associations with the likes of young George Constantinou, Rod Mitchell and the Cragnolinis. We know the straight and the crooked deals he made over the years, just as we know the deeds of others around him. We also know of the political deals he has done with Australia in return for political recognition after the 2nd of August 2011 bludgeoning of Somare.
The real question is, does he have what it takes, and can he stand up for the RED GOLD & BLACK? Or will he be just another good native?
The signs are already fairly ominous of a sell-out job done by Peter ONeill. It already appears he has sold his soul to Julia Gillard. He needs these next 18 months to prove to the rest of us that he is a true nationalist, that the genes of his native mother will always outweigh those of his Irish Father, that he will rise to be a better Prime Minister, and better at negotiating competing interests and triumphing over those who want to turn him and his office into their own Post Office Box. He has 18 months to show us that he is the Prime Minister of PNG and not Julia Gillard’s rubber stamp of Australian cross-interests in this country. He will have to do better than he has done so far to show us that our lives and our resources are safe from the marauding corporate raiders who are crowding his social calendar even now.
He has to demonstrate that the mothers of Bougainville who lost their sons fighting for their land and resources have not died in vain. He has to show us that the blood of the innocent spilled on Bougainville was for a cause of equal worth, and that indeed he will use this term of Prime Minister-ship to initiate a ministry of healing of the nation., to reconcile us as brother to brother, that our blood can flow through our veins once again from one heartbeat. He has to, like Jerry Singirok did, honour the oath he took before God and man under our Constitution to protect our people and the national interest. Peter ONeill must know what the national interest calls for in every case, and must summon the courage like Singirok did, and honour the national interest in everything confronting the nation today, not just in respect of Bougainville, although Bougainville ought to be high priority on our nation’s list of “unfinished business”.
ONeill has the challenge to define our separate path as a people and as a nation, not to allow us to disintegrate into a dependant economic basket case. He has to ensure we do not become an enclave of resource extraction, leaving behind polluted oceans and scarred landscapes, of an equally scarred and soul-less people, helpless, confused and poverty stricken, devoid of any real idea of who we are and where we are headed.
For Somare, who signed the First Project Agreement for Bougainville and for Chan who signed to spill blood, the healing of Bougainville will be a fitting closure, for the past to be properly buried, and for the future to be welcomed together. For without properly dealing with these matters, this matter of “unfinished business”, we can never wipe the sorrow from the Islands of Bougainville; we will not have served the national interest, and we cannot go on the world stage as a complete whole.
Is Peter ONeill one of the sons that the great Simbu Chief Kondom Agaunduo spoke of in his maiden speech to the SPC, or is he just another ‘yes’ man for the Australians, doing their bidding so that he can increase his own barns, while the rest of the country starve? Does Peter ONeill have the smarts of a modern education and business acumen to really serve the national interest, or will be just another drunken politician, pandering to his mates, and the sharks and vultures already circling around and above the nation looking to extract our resources and leave us bare?
Toea Wisil’s triumph was really our triumph indeed as a people. The idea that this Highlands lass could dare to burst through all manner of human impediments, the chains of time and history, the insurmountable social religious and cultural prejudices, to stamp her mark on a premier world qualifying event is remarkable when you consider that in the early 1930s as Sydney Harbour Bridge was being opened, the world didn’t even know then that highlanders like the people of Ialibu-Pangia ever existed in the interior of this country. With every TV stations bearing down on her, Wisil gave the world a rare insight into what we as a people, this ancient Melanesian primordial odyssey have birthed, and what is to come! While the nation prepares to host the next South Pacific Games, one wonders whether we will be proud to cheer our red black and gold, or will we die of complacency, indifference, and simply fizzle into nothingness? The real question again is, does Peter ONeill – the man from Ialibu-Pangia, another young highlander like Wisil, possess the skill, courage, mental, intellectual and moral fortitude to rise to the call of the nation, to lift the pride of this nation high and assert our position as a Melanesian people. Does he have what it takes to not only give us cause to celebrate and showcase our nation in the coming games, but show those sharks and vultures that circle him; that he is a nationalist, that this is the land of an ancient and free people, a people of pride, strength and culture and he will serve the national interest above all else? That we will not be bought or sold for political or economic convenience? That the birth place of the Melanesian nations- the heart and soul of Melanesia is not for sale?
These questions are only for Peter O’Neill to answer, and prove his personal mettle. If he fails and sells us cheap to the Australian and other interests, (as there are many signs already that he will fail us), then that will be his legacy, and his only. If he becomes the convenient conduit to allow Australians to crush our heart and soul as a people, then this nation will never forgive him, future generations will not forgive him, and all the labour of our forefathers and the fathers of our Constitution have laboured in vain.
This alone remains Peter O’Neill’s greatest challenge as Prime Minister today, as the wolves are no longer at the gates huffing and puffing, they are in his living room, in and under his bed, and at his table.
It is therefore incumbent on other leaders to also stand up for this nation, just as the former Governor for Morobe did, to rule a line in the sand, and tell the hordes that prey on our people and their Leaders, to stay outside the line, and clarify their wish lists. Australia has proven that it cannot be trusted to secure our Constitution, our Judiciary and our democracy according to principles of rule of law. Australia has proven its ability to openly manipulate our politics and our institutions to serve its own interests. Australia is only here to serve its economic and strategic interests, and we cannot blame it for that, as long as our leaders wake up from their deep slumber and protect our own National Interests.
Our Laws and our Constitution, and our Parliamentary system was adopted from England. We must not lose sight of our own origins both as a people and as a modern nation State. Peter ONeill has the advantage of the wise Counsel of Somare, Chan and Wingti at his disposal. Somare for issues relating to national identity as a modern Melanesian State, Chan and Wingti to help define and chart the economic course that serves the overall strategic national interest s of this country. Those with wish lists in bed with ONeill must be made to define and measure them against clearly stated interests of the nation. If these interests are not defined, and made subservient to the national interests by our young Leaders like ONeill, then the wolves will definitely eat us. Before we realize what is going on, ONeill will have successfully sold our people and the national interest down the river, and he will have sailed into the sunset with his gains, and we will be left to ponder what really went wrong as we struggle as a soul-less nation to live with the manacles of economic slavery, control and poverty he placed us under. God forbid that this should happen!
PETER ONEILL’S GREATEST CHALLENGE AS PRIME MINISTER OF PNG.
Our moments of triumph on the Olympic stage have not been many, so full marks to our Toea Wisil for her recent triumph on track and field. We have had our moments over the last 37 years in the regional sporting events like the Commonwealth Games, the Arafura Games, the South Pacific and the Mini South Pacific Games, but Wisil’s qualifying run was something special. Its significance will be held in our collective memories for a long time, as her personal triumph is part of history as a nation.
In an Olympic year, we are once again contemplating playing host to the next South Pacific Games and the government (especially the previous ONeill-Namah political Leadership) has not been serious about what is and what ought to have been a matter of priority and pride to prepare necessary infrastructure for the event. The nation is about to face its moment of truth on the regional and international stage but we are way behind in our preparations, and so far treated this event as a political afterthought. Our lack of preparations must necessarily be viewed as a measure of our own awareness and pride in ourselves. It is a measure of the way we have gone off-course in terms of focussing our people and our leaders on matters other than that of national interest and national importance. It is a measure of the way we have lost our way as a nation, preoccupied with politics, the demands of enclave type developments like the LNG, and forgotten about being a country, about nationhood, and about what the national interest requires of us. It is a measure of the way we have lost our own sovereignty in favour of serving others’ interests, including personal interests.
We are about to reveal once again for all to see what we have been about for the last 37 years, at least since the last time we hosted the Games here. At least we had a Sir Anthony Siaguru to lead us out with a committee of equally talented people, showcased and acquitted well of the nation they represented. Oh how the red gold and black fluttered in the steady South-Westerly, and our hearts were instantaneously lifted to greater heights of exuberance, as our athletes triumphed. We could believe once again in ourselves, and the social contract we signed in 1975 to be one nation, one people and one country. And oh how we triumphed then, hauling in more gold silver and bronze than ever before, or since! Every Kiwai, Tolai, Highlander, Wopa, Siwai, Orokaiva, Orokolo, Sol and Tasi walked out of that stadium, proud, and rightfully so. We savoured those precious few shared moments of triumph with tears streaming down our faces. We looked at each other wide eyed and teary faced, and we laughed tears of joy and elation, and gently swayed to the fading strands of John Wong’s voice “Papua New Guinea… one people, one country...”as we walked out, confident and sure of ourselves.
We knew we will always be one people, a people cast together by history, a people held together by our ancient agrarian ways, thrust almost prematurely into the limelight of 21st Century to sink or swim, live or die. Together we chose life. And but whilst the odds were always staked against us, and some called us stone aged primitives, while others whispered,”… they won’t make it...”, it is in rare moments of sporting triumph like this, pitted against their best, on a clear sky blue days and on level playing fields, we have come together and asserted resoundingly that we have arrived on the world’s centre stage!
We have asserted that we are an ancient people, a strong people, the largest nation in the Pacific Islands and the land link between the tiger economies of Asia and the Pacific. We are the pre-historic home of Melanesia. We are a serious people, and we shall be taken seriously by our other Melanesian, Polynesian and Micronesian neighbours. Whether they like it or not, whether they like our way of doing things or not, we are here and we will assert ourselves, and assert we did at that and every other SP Game since.
Who would have predicted how we would turn out as a nation and a people in 1973 when we were granted Self Government so hurriedly by the Gorton/Whitlam Governments of Canberra?
In the early 70s on the occasion of a South Pacific Commission Meeting held in the capital of one of our Polynesian countries, the Paramount Chief of the Chimbu people, and he may as well have been the Paramount Chief of all the Highlanders, because he was a tall towering and imposing Simbu, who stood as tall as the mountains, and firm as his native rock of Elimbari, stood up and spoke. Whenever he spoke in his native setting, his dozen wives and multitudes upon multitudes of tribes men far and near came and drank of his words in utter silence, words that echoed like a thousand waterfalls and flowed seamlessly like the Waghi, giving life to a deeply farrowed land. But this time, his solemn maiden Chiefly address to the South Pacific Commission in tok pisin was openly mocked. Perhaps it was because of his earnest but equally farrowed facial features. Perhaps it was because he didn’t understand a word of English and could not speak any. Even perhaps it was because they couldn’t understand him at all with his typical highlands big-manly animations. He did look like someone out of the stone-age, but his heart was earnest and his composure sure and demeanour true. Notwithstanding, he felt the mocking laughter deeply, like the bitter stings of a thousand wasps buzzing around his head. He couldn’t speak English. Realizing, from the laughter and the polite nods that he had just become the laughing stock of the Pacific, and realizing he carried with him not only the pride of the Narengu tribe of Chimbu, but also the pride of history of his fathers and that of the then Territories of Papua and New Guinea he represented, Kondom Agaunduo slowly raised his hand as if to brush the wafting wasps away, allowed the laughter to subside, and spoke in slow deliberate pisin and uttered those famous lines… ” yupela harim ah! Nau mi kam long hia na toktok na yupela lap long mi. Em I orait. Tomoro bai mi salim ol pikinini bilong mi i kam. Taim ol I kam, bai yupela ino nap lap long ol! “ With that he sat down, and never spoke again.
Paramount Chief Kondom Agaunduo now lies in silent repose in his village on the side of the Highway named after an equally imposing political force of the Simbu people. Kondom was a man before his time. He was a Chief and Luluai, a cultural hero who brought progress to Chimbu in the early colonial period. He was the first Simbu coffee grower, father of the Chimbu Coffee Cooperative, Member of the District Advisory Council, Observer to the First Legislative Council in Port Moresby. Before his premature death from a car accident, he was truly a pioneer who craved education and progress for his people so that they could meet or match the whiteman, a man without pigs, on his own terms, and triumph. He was resolute and uncompromising in this cause. His leadership, punctuated by long eloquent speeches, was impeccable. There was no ounce of self interest in his cause. His cause was that of every Chimbu to advance.
Our few moments of triumph on the sporting fields have been shared together, as highlanders, Momases, NGIs and Papuans- groupings that came as we tried to define ourselves along our natural geographic regions. Yet these groupings sit very un-comfortably with our own assertion and notion as one people and one nation. Today we have indeed become one people and one nation naturally in a way we could never have openly predicted-with complex intermarriages. Even when corporate greed threatened to blow us apart, and it did for many years for thousands on Bougainville, one man, a soldier and a national hero from Karkar Island, stood up and defied all odds to put a stop to the blood bath that was about to unfold, and held us together. He underwent a period of self-examination and self-assessment for some time, and after all that was done, he stood up, and he stood by the oath he took before God and man to protect the Constitution, his nation, his people in Bougainville and on the mainland. He realized in time that if he didn’t stand up, he would by his conduct have revoked the Constitutional framework that held us together as a people, and cut adrift the people of Bougainville. He defied vulgar political direction and greedy corporate puppetry from outside. When Jerry Singirok triumphed personally over the evil that was about to be served, a chalice of blood, a slaughter that appeared inevitable, the whole nation triumphed. We all exhaled in great shared relief! Whew!
Many a child who was born in the 1980s, educated to feel equally eloquent and masters of their own destiny, deserving of a great future in this country, find themselves having to invariably come to terms with political legacies and historical events like Bougainville, constantly nagging at them with them having to ask themselves this question- what was all that about? The mothers of Bougainville, who survived, who suffered through loss of their own sons, daughters and husbands, are still asking that very question to this day.
While the fallen soldiers were draped in the red black and gold, the fallen in Bougainville lie scattered all over those islands of sorrow, and their spirits still wander unrequited. Deep down, every mother in Bougainville still ask, why did the nation turn its guns on our sons? Why did Bougainville become the Islands of sorrow? Can we as a nation triumph together in sporting fields like the coming SP Games and in other spheres if we do not deal with Bougainville, look at our brother in the eye and honestly feel the same blood pulsating through our veins?
How can we explain Bougainville to our children that they, as intelligent human beings with inquisitive minds, can make sense of it? How can the fatherless and the motherless children of Bougainville who also struggle daily with their permanent condition be consoled? And how do they further explain it to their children?
We cannot explain Bougainville, the shedding of innocent blood, the birthing of an Island of orphans and widows, in any other way than the sense of corporate greed, and blatant disregard for human lives and the rights of human beings by so called civilized nations, acting secretively through off-balance sheet black ops operatives. No one has gone behind the scenes to expose the people behind the people in Sandline. Faceless men in glass steel and concrete towers in faraway lands, powerful governments and their operatives, use money and influence and do deals and sign papers that instantaneously spill the blood innocent people all over the world. It was the South Americas yesterday, and today it is the Middle-East, with Africa the ongoing playground of those who want to pawn off the lives of the starving innocent using contentions of old tribal rifts and religious differences as convenient divisive tools. The death of the cold war has spawned new wars, wars that relate directly to control and exploitation of scarce resources and energy fields that will see the rise and re-ordering of civilisation as we know.
While those who conceived Sandline have long melted into the shadows, governments involved quickly cut off connections, wiped the paper trail and electronic footprints leading to their doorsteps, shredded the papers and claimed both ignorance and innocence; the Queen sits with a solemn smile on her throne in England, while the Kangaroos still graze peacefully on the brown meadows of Australia. Long gone are the sounds of machine guns and echoes of the cries of children looking for their mothers. Today, they come with bundles of Aid money to “help” the people of Bougainville. It’s the re-building and restoration program that they in their magnanimous generosity bestow on Bougainville that comes, but not necessarily without strings. How wonderfully generous the help is to us with roads that may one day carry our copper and gold out again, and ports that may see ships bearing all manner of colours once more berth, but let us not even contemplate that for now.
For now, having put up his hand for Sumkar and lost to an Australian Naturalized citizen, Jerry Singirok, sits back on his Island home to contemplate and take stock of his gains and losses, his friends and his foes, especially those who pretended to be friends but were really against him. He savours the sting of deception, like that of a thousand urchins. No war would have prepared him for this public admonition and rejection. In the 2012 elections, more so than ever before, the Australian Defence and intelligence played a very heavy hand, and made no secret about the fact of who Canberra wants installed as the new Prime Minister. Jerry Singirok of all people was in a better position to know and understand what was really at stake. He also knows how during the Commission of Inquiry into Sandline, he, along with several other public servants, were made public scapegoats by powerful people and powerful governments behind Sandline, to wipe their own footprints, as they melted into the dark.
On the 2nd of August 2011, Australia engineered the disposal of Somare while he was in Hospital. They used ONeill’s ambition, Nape’s greed and Namah’s stupidity to bludgeon Somare. Then when the courts were called upon to intervene by a Supreme Court Reference, Julia Gillard used a political bulldozer to smash down the gates of our Judicial system and our Constitution, by openly recognizing Peter ONeill as Prime Minister! She pre-empted the Supreme Court, the sole arbiter under the Constitution to deal with the then pending question of legitimacy of Peter ONeill as Prime Minister.
Australia has always advocated the importance of the rule of law, and the importance of having an independent judiciary as the backstop of our democracy in Papua New Guinea. Except on this occasion Australia threw all that out the window. When it suited Australia’s strategic economic and political purposes, even the ideals of rule of law, governance, transparency, accountability and principles of democratic government were readily flushed down the toilet by Australia. Gillard used her High Commissioner, Ian Kemish, tons of money, and the full swag of intelligence tools at her disposal, including the complicity of the Post Courier, to push for Peter ONeill, however constitutionally illegitimate that was.
Australia was instrumental in the smashing of the Constitution and the judiciary of Papua New Guinea, the two most important institutions that birthed this nation and gave it its soul, its sacred sanctity and sovereignty, and its separate identity as a separate people and a separate nation in the South Pacific. The judiciary is the watchdog that guards the Constitution. The Constitution is like a vial that contains the essential DNA of Papua New Guinea, the largest nation of Melanesian people on God’s earth. If you destroy the Constitution and its watch dog, you destroy a nation, and the rest becomes history.
Prior to and during the elections, Australia moved its people into key positions within the Electoral Commission, and even brought in its military and SAS veterans from Iraq and Afghanistan to run a separate communications and operations capability parallel to the PNG security forces. All this was done to ensure one result- Peter ONeill to form the next government. Immediately after ONeill was declared winner of the Ialibu-Pangia seat by beating his nearest rival by 45,000 votes, Ian Kemish moved a whole company of Australian Army specialists into the Airways Hotel where ONeill team was holed up, as a show of alliance, and as a Personal VIP Protective Unit in full combat gear, against anything that ONeill’s brother Belden Namah would throw. It was an open show of strength. The Australian Army under Gillard moved huge amounts of firearms into PNG and into the Airways Hotel on secret Australian Airforce Fights. They made sure ONeill knew he was under the Australian army protection, and that he owed his rather “unusual landslide election win” to them.
It was a job well done for Ian Kemish, who unlike any other High Commissioner before him, was prepared to get his hands dirty, and do some of the work himself. As a diplomat, he has trod where even angels wouldn’t dare. What a brave man this Ian Kemish is, for he has successfully and almost singlehandedly displayed the full length and breadth of the power of Australia over Papua New Guinea politics. He has shown other diplomats in almost resounding terms, who owns this country! And for this he would have earned a long and well deserved holiday somewhere in Europe, and for sure almost endless career possibilities with the Commonwealth. It was a job well done in any one’s language.
Somare and other elder statesmen have played the only card they could play under the circumstances. But their card no longer carries any personal ambitions. They have been there and done that. There is no anger or resentment left in Chan, Somare or even Wingti. They have measured ambitions, which involve issues of what form or shape of legacy will they all and each leave for this nation. How will they be remembered after they pass? Each one of them has had a by-pass operation. Each is living on time that has been graciously extended to them. And each of them has known what it is like to have and hold power, exercise power, and what a heady thing that is!
The real issue for Somare Chan and Wingti, and others of the elder Statesmen around ONeill , is how much of the love for the RED GOLD & BLACK can they impart to Peter ONeill and get him away from the charms of money, wealth, fame and more fortune promised to him by those who now like cicadas whisper incessantly into his ears. To be sure, Papua New Guineans know the deals O’Neill has done over the years. We also know his various businesses that are run openly and under other people’s names. We also know of his associations with the likes of young George Constantinou, Rod Mitchell and the Cragnolinis. We know the straight and the crooked deals he made over the years, just as we know the deeds of others around him. We also know of the political deals he has done with Australia in return for political recognition after the 2nd of August 2011 bludgeoning of Somare.
The real question is, does he have what it takes, and can he stand up for the RED GOLD & BLACK? Or will he be just another good native?
The signs are already fairly ominous of a sell-out job done by Peter ONeill. It already appears he has sold his soul to Julia Gillard. He needs these next 18 months to prove to the rest of us that he is a true nationalist, that the genes of his native mother will always outweigh those of his Irish Father, that he will rise to be a better Prime Minister, and better at negotiating competing interests and triumphing over those who want to turn him and his office into their own Post Office Box. He has 18 months to show us that he is the Prime Minister of PNG and not Julia Gillard’s rubber stamp of Australian cross-interests in this country. He will have to do better than he has done so far to show us that our lives and our resources are safe from the marauding corporate raiders who are crowding his social calendar even now.
He has to demonstrate that the mothers of Bougainville who lost their sons fighting for their land and resources have not died in vain. He has to show us that the blood of the innocent spilled on Bougainville was for a cause of equal worth, and that indeed he will use this term of Prime Minister-ship to initiate a ministry of healing of the nation., to reconcile us as brother to brother, that our blood can flow through our veins once again from one heartbeat. He has to, like Jerry Singirok did, honour the oath he took before God and man under our Constitution to protect our people and the national interest. Peter ONeill must know what the national interest calls for in every case, and must summon the courage like Singirok did, and honour the national interest in everything confronting the nation today, not just in respect of Bougainville, although Bougainville ought to be high priority on our nation’s list of “unfinished business”.
ONeill has the challenge to define our separate path as a people and as a nation, not to allow us to disintegrate into a dependant economic basket case. He has to ensure we do not become an enclave of resource extraction, leaving behind polluted oceans and scarred landscapes, of an equally scarred and soul-less people, helpless, confused and poverty stricken, devoid of any real idea of who we are and where we are headed.
For Somare, who signed the First Project Agreement for Bougainville and for Chan who signed to spill blood, the healing of Bougainville will be a fitting closure, for the past to be properly buried, and for the future to be welcomed together. For without properly dealing with these matters, this matter of “unfinished business”, we can never wipe the sorrow from the Islands of Bougainville; we will not have served the national interest, and we cannot go on the world stage as a complete whole.
Is Peter ONeill one of the sons that the great Simbu Chief Kondom Agaunduo spoke of in his maiden speech to the SPC, or is he just another ‘yes’ man for the Australians, doing their bidding so that he can increase his own barns, while the rest of the country starve? Does Peter ONeill have the smarts of a modern education and business acumen to really serve the national interest, or will be just another drunken politician, pandering to his mates, and the sharks and vultures already circling around and above the nation looking to extract our resources and leave us bare?
Toea Wisil’s triumph was really our triumph indeed as a people. The idea that this Highlands lass could dare to burst through all manner of human impediments, the chains of time and history, the insurmountable social religious and cultural prejudices, to stamp her mark on a premier world qualifying event is remarkable when you consider that in the early 1930s as Sydney Harbour Bridge was being opened, the world didn’t even know then that highlanders like the people of Ialibu-Pangia ever existed in the interior of this country. With every TV stations bearing down on her, Wisil gave the world a rare insight into what we as a people, this ancient Melanesian primordial odyssey have birthed, and what is to come! While the nation prepares to host the next South Pacific Games, one wonders whether we will be proud to cheer our red black and gold, or will we die of complacency, indifference, and simply fizzle into nothingness? The real question again is, does Peter ONeill – the man from Ialibu-Pangia, another young highlander like Wisil, possess the skill, courage, mental, intellectual and moral fortitude to rise to the call of the nation, to lift the pride of this nation high and assert our position as a Melanesian people. Does he have what it takes to not only give us cause to celebrate and showcase our nation in the coming games, but show those sharks and vultures that circle him; that he is a nationalist, that this is the land of an ancient and free people, a people of pride, strength and culture and he will serve the national interest above all else? That we will not be bought or sold for political or economic convenience? That the birth place of the Melanesian nations- the heart and soul of Melanesia is not for sale?
These questions are only for Peter O’Neill to answer, and prove his personal mettle. If he fails and sells us cheap to the Australian and other interests, (as there are many signs already that he will fail us), then that will be his legacy, and his only. If he becomes the convenient conduit to allow Australians to crush our heart and soul as a people, then this nation will never forgive him, future generations will not forgive him, and all the labour of our forefathers and the fathers of our Constitution have laboured in vain.
This alone remains Peter O’Neill’s greatest challenge as Prime Minister today, as the wolves are no longer at the gates huffing and puffing, they are in his living room, in and under his bed, and at his table.
It is therefore incumbent on other leaders to also stand up for this nation, just as the former Governor for Morobe did, to rule a line in the sand, and tell the hordes that prey on our people and their Leaders, to stay outside the line, and clarify their wish lists. Australia has proven that it cannot be trusted to secure our Constitution, our Judiciary and our democracy according to principles of rule of law. Australia has proven its ability to openly manipulate our politics and our institutions to serve its own interests. Australia is only here to serve its economic and strategic interests, and we cannot blame it for that, as long as our leaders wake up from their deep slumber and protect our own National Interests.
Our Laws and our Constitution, and our Parliamentary system was adopted from England. We must not lose sight of our own origins both as a people and as a modern nation State. Peter ONeill has the advantage of the wise Counsel of Somare, Chan and Wingti at his disposal. Somare for issues relating to national identity as a modern Melanesian State, Chan and Wingti to help define and chart the economic course that serves the overall strategic national interest s of this country. Those with wish lists in bed with ONeill must be made to define and measure them against clearly stated interests of the nation. If these interests are not defined, and made subservient to the national interests by our young Leaders like ONeill, then the wolves will definitely eat us. Before we realize what is going on, ONeill will have successfully sold our people and the national interest down the river, and he will have sailed into the sunset with his gains, and we will be left to ponder what really went wrong as we struggle as a soul-less nation to live with the manacles of economic slavery, control and poverty he placed us under. God forbid that this should happen!
spin anyway you want it.subscribe to tons of verbal dirohea and talk about historical boolsits.whatever.but the fact remains.ben micah is a crook.supported by another crook in chan & oniel.and we in png will be screwed blind! piss off micah.piss of chan.piss off oniell and put back somare.m chl.
Boo! im the ghost of steven mokis back to haunt kavieng citizens and steal more money from the nipg and autonomy committee where for the past 5 years, uncle chan & his kid son byron dopey chan have been fundng us but actually getting kikbacks for their ppp campaign.im only revealing the truth now becos im dead and the oc and chan family cant kon me anymore.my 2ic ben micah is now a minister of state but not for long, because derol jee my nephew who betrayed ppp or maybe was smart enough to realize that joining ppp was only going to help chans business and not aloga 42-has now taken ben micah to the court of disputed returns.its a closed & shut case becos my 2ic was just too big and smart to check himself that his name was on the common roll and now he looks like jack shite for failing a simple task.nothing new.thats how he farked up instructions when i issued them as chairman.and one particular instruction-passed on to me from governor sir j was to siphon back k250,000.00 every year to pay for hire cars, food , and cash of k200 to key guys in each village who looked after 10 villagers each.non ppp supporters were also looked after with k50 cash each but those were mainly for stupid sepiks and vairas who were yoyos or pangu png na supporters to fark up aini & gang.but k5,000.00 was paid to ppp groups and women especially and the chief implementors were andrew kamane a highlands prik from goroka and that fat smart arse maimai martin i was never sacked by ben micah kombeng.anyway i have to go now becos its hot down here having my bare asss eaten by kurakum and getting tired listening to my wives and mistresses arguing where my body will be buried.it was very embarrasing having noel pasca put my adulterous past in the front page and exposing nipg monies used on my dead body.buts that why i chose ppp.we can always use public monies to look after ourselves and nobody finds out becos sir j is too sly too admit to corruption.continue with your hail marys bishop kiapsini becos ill need plenty to get me out of here in purgotary and whilst your praying for me say a couple for yourself for those unfortunate alter boys from tanga that you sodomized in 1987.boo!
No, no, no, you've got your prorities wrong! O'Neill's greatest challenge is to stop going out to Airways and getting pissed every night with George Constantinou and crew. He can't run the country pissed, or can he? I suppose anything is possible in PNG.
Ben Micah siphoned K3 million from the PMs department as chief of staff and used it all to fund the ppp elections in new ireland province and in the process put chan back as governor.oniell screwed martin aini his own candidate and aini was stupid enough to join him.bunch of crooks and back stabbers who all deserve to be screwed in 18 months time in vote of no confidence.but beware, a detailed report on ben micahs dirty deal with peter oniell will be aired soon.
MICAH & CHAN PLOTTING AGAINST ONIELL TO PUT DON POLYE
September 3 2012, 9:51 PM
peter oniel watch your back closely because ben micah has been offered treasury and byron chan finance by don polye.ben micah is a snake in the grass.watch out kande
Belden has been discretely talking with William Duma and Don Polye. They are not happy with the distibution of ministries by O'Neil
Belden has proposed that he will put up someone else who has the potential to attract other MP's in his bid to topple the O'Neil government.......it won't be long....just around the corner....you just watch....18 months is only 18 weeks
Re: MICAH & CHAN PLOTTING AGAINST ONIELL TO PUT DON POLYE
September 4 2012, 11:40 AM
Ben Micah will topple sir j chan.thats the big talk in kavieng if your into power politics.ben isnt hiding the fact that he gives sir j 2 years to hand over the ppp leadership or ppp will make the decision for sir j himself.interesting times when you have power brokers and egoists goin head to head.
There was ben micah who has been walking the streets of mosbi and kavieng for 20 years catching pmvs and smoking broos then all of a sudden he is travelling first class on px and sitting in corporate boxes with asian gamblers all in the name of familiarity excercise to study how temasak holdings is mananged.what a kon micah? its all a typical junket trip to misuse public funds and screw asian women as minister for peter oniell.giaman gen!
He's so fat now its almost unbelievable. Notice that the newspapers rarely show his face or body with stories about him now. Rumour is it he doesn't want anyone to see how fat he is.
Ben Micah is tasked to manage public enterprises and big notes himself on the daily media but cant even register his name to be on the kavieng electoral roll! now he will be dismissed because the guy cannot manage details and manage his own pesonal affairs.so how will he manage pngs affairs.he wont!!!!!!!!!!!!!! derol jee you da man to remove this big fat piece of shite.
Ben Micah the new minister for public enterprises recently visited lae and we were shocked at his behaviour as the function continued on into the nite.he had hangers on who looked and talked like thugs.Then without a care in the world he danced with two to three young women at a time and bought them excessive amounts of beer in front of everyone.then he was taken away with these girls to the executive suite to release his lustful male hormones on these young women he preyed on who could hardly walk at 1 am in the morning.this is not what we want to see in this new government.peter oniel who is well recieved in lae must rid his government of such horrible people and sir j chan must stand up for what is right.i feel for the people of kavieng where my daughter is married for having such a person to represnt them.sem lo mangi mussau.
I can't believe it!!!! A supporter of the Indisputably Corrupt Sir J arguing with a supporter of the Incredibly Corrupt Peter Ipatas about which one of their favourite corrupt politicians is the best one! What a laugh!!!!!!!!
I think it unfair and ignorant to suggest those who comment on corrupt leaders who have demonstrated clearly they are corrupt and have used their positions to gain personal wealth and become millionaires overnite like j chan & his family are jelous? goodnes me! how naive and stupid! many of us who love png simply want to eradicate corruption.the best place to start is to expose individuals like chan & micah.that is what pngscape was established to do and should continue doing so.pls dont assume we are jelus! we are determined to get rid of blokes like chan & micah.not just from nips but png olgeta yiaaaa.
Point Taken.forgive me if i was too offensive with my response.its been a difficult 5 years under sir j and to have him again as governor is becoming both stressful and demoralising.it would be acceptable if he were to demonstrate genuine attempts to work in with implementors instead of spending his time in kavieng and overseas.but to observe how his family company has grown profitable at the expense of good governance in our province makes me want to protest and take him to court.corrupt leaders should be executed in my view.
You know something? Elsewhere in the world many cases of corruption come out into the open because people are jealous. So big deal. I could give a crap what the reason is for the corruption info coming out. All I care about is that finally we start NAMING & SHAMING those who have gotten away with stealing for far too long. Ben Micah and Julius Chan certainly couldn't get any more than what they deserve for many years of past sins.
CHAN & MICAH ORCHESTRATED PRINTING OF ILLEGAL BALLOT PAPERS
October 24 2012, 11:26 AM
Namah also called for a commission of inquiry to investigate more than 280,000 ballot papers printed and used during the 2012 general election.
Namah said in parliament that he also had evidence of the private printing of ballot papers ordered to be used in the elections.
He told parliament he had a copy of a letter sent to the government printer to print the 280,000 ballot papers and that the papers were indeed printed and used during the elections.
He said only a commission of inquiry could determine which party and leaders benefited from the fake or duplicated papers to win seats.
now i wonder who that party leader was? obviously chan with micah doin the dirty deed as per usual.do we need to say more?
Why should they do something as stupid as have ballot papers printed. Chan and Micah and Chan all had handouts to get votes
If they printed ballots it would have been from one of their overseas asian connections. corrupt yes, stupid, No.
Opposition Leader Belden Namah said yesterday that he must have seen a ghost of Ben Micah if the Minister denies the Jackson’s Airport meeting with Vanuatu and PNG Foreign Affairs Ministers.
Mr Namah with his Opposition MPs called a media conference to put what he called some facts for the people of Papua New Guinea to know.
“I want to make it clear to Papua New Guineans and the foreign community who is actually the big fat liar in this whole situation.
“I make myself very clear that on Thursday as I walked into arrival and departure VIP lounge I noticed the Foreign Affairs Minister for Papua New Guinea Rimbink Pato, the State owned enterprise Minister Ben Micah, in their company was Foreign Affairs Minister of Vanuatu.”
“If Ben Micah is denying that he was not there than I must have seen his ghost. It is really sad when senior Ministers, it is really sad when we see the Prime Minister of this country telling lies to the people of this country.
“Just read the front page of Post- Courier, Prime Minister denies any involvement with the Vanuatu Foreign Minister but the Vanuatu Foreign Minister is saying that he was invited by the O’Neill government. Who is telling the truth and who is telling lies?”
Mr Namah said the Office of the Opposition contacted the United States Embassy to find out if there was any formal invitation or appointment for Vanuatu Foreign Minister to visit the US Embassy but the Embassy denied any such arrangements.
“We are talking about the US Embassy in Papua New Guinea denying any formal arrangements.
“My appeal to the people of Papua New Guinea, we have to seriously think about how this country is being run. All you have to do is take three pictures and put them on the wall, the picture of Peter O’Neill, Belden Namah and Ben Micah and check their history. Who has been telling lies? Who has been at the centre of many controversial deals in this country and you find who is telling lies and who is telling the truth.”
Re: CHAN & MICAH ORCHESTRATED PRINTING OF ILLEGAL BALLOT PAPERS
March 11 2013, 2:05 AM
Chan has been finally committed to stand trail on allegations of bribery.i beg the lawyers to roast the governor becos for too long he cons the people of kvg town especially mussaus who today hang around the assembly begging for money becos they gave him votes.ben miach and chan have turned sda christiansd into beggars and adulteres.
Re: CHAN & MICAH ORCHESTRATED PRINTING OF ILLEGAL BALLOT PAPERS
March 11 2013, 7:34 AM
Chan wanted to get his hands on the big pile of money that was surely going to flow into Kavieng following islands independence. The islands people showed their stupidity by supporting him.
The corrupt Chan will never stand trial for bribery or corruption - isn't this simply an election dispute challenge and nothing more?
JULIUS CHAN COMMITTED TO STAND TRAIL-IS NEXT TO GO
March 21 2013, 12:25 AM
Minister for Higher Education, Science, Research and Technology, David Arore, has been arrested by police for Official Corruption and Bribery.
His arrest follows a special investigation task force team, comprising of the NCD CID detectives, which was set up to probe allegations of bribery by two Returning Officers for Ijivitari and Sohe Open Electorates namely Mr Paul Kamani and Mr Elliot Damuli Tale
The two were earlier arrested and charged with one count of official corruption, one count of Abuse of office and one count of duty of persons offered gratification each respectively. Their cases are still before the Popondetta Committal Court for a ruling whether or not there is sufficient and coherent evidence to commit them to stand trial in the next sitting of the National Court in Popondetta. During the course of the Police Investigation, the evidence implicated the Member for Ijivitari and Minister for Higher Education, Science, Research and Technology, David Nui Arore, and had been required by the Popondetta Police for questioning. It was alleged that the said Minister facilitated airline tickets, travel allowances, meals and lodging at Grand Papua Hotel for the two (2) returning officers for the respective Open Electorates of Ijivitari and Sohe, who travelled and returned the writs for Ijivitari and Sohe Open Electorates, while the counting for the Northern Regional Seat was still progressing to its finality.
Minister Arore voluntarily went to the Popondetta Police Station with his lawyer, Mr Tony Sua of Paraka Lawyers, Popondetta office. Police then executed the fresh warrant of arrest upon him as the previous warrant for his arrest had been set aside by his lawyer. The Minister was then invited and went through a formal record of interview with the Police.
At the completion of the record of interview, he was then arrested and charged with the following charges: one (1) count of official corruption under section 87 (1) (b) of the Criminal Code Act, one (1) count for treating under section 101 (1) of the Criminal Code Act, and the third count for Bribery pursuant to section 103 (a) (iii) of the Criminal Code Act.
Oro Provincial Police Commander Victor Isouve in releasing this information said: “The arrest and charging of the Member for Ijivitari and Minister of Higher Education, Science, Research and Technology completes this investigation, which had taken almost eight months to complete. I reiterate that the common principle under section 59 of the Constitution prevails in that Mr Arore, is innocent until proven guilty.
He has now been locked in Popondetta Police Station cells; and was released on court bail of K1500 granted by the Provincial Magistrate Mr William Noki yesterday evening upon representation of his lawyer and the Police Prosecutor,” Mr Isouve said.
Guess whose next? sir Julius chan so called grand chief or thieves has been finally committed to stand trial for bribery and undue influence using nipg monies to meet campaign costs and pay off voters under the guise of so called projects after the writs were issued.chan is next.
Where do I collect my promised grants moni MR MiCah
March 24 2013, 7:19 PM
Mr Micah, before and during the election time myself and the majority of nalik area had our photos taken and our names registered and by doing so were promised free grant money if we voted for you and if you got into power. Still we wait, and every time I go to your company NASEL I am told there is no money. Am stupid for voting for you, you think? Maybe this is a form of bribery? I am a silly little NILPIS. Maybe I ask the large number of other promised NILPiS bratS and sistas to gather together and call into your house at kopkop. Maybe Danny Micah is keeping the money warm for us or his half sista debibra. Please somebody help me, I feel raped and tossed aside like a skinned NILPIS.
THE OC should raid your houses for the evidence of pictures and registered persons names.......quickly Danny burn the lap tops and memory sticks.
Re: Where do I collect my promised grants moni MR MiCah
March 24 2013, 8:41 PM
You were not only a fool for thinking there's anything such as free project money, but it is that kind of nonsense (which you supported) that results in huge amounts of money meant for local development being stolen instead. Shame on you!
Re: JULIUS CHAN COMMITTED TO STAND TRAIL-IS NEXT TO GO
March 27 2013, 1:36 AM
O’Neill said an important check and balance in the conduct of the elections was the national court.
“(It) functions as an independent tribunal to hear disputes by unsuccessful candidates – and that process is currently under way,” he said.
“We should have confidence in the judicial process to consider, and where necessary overturn election results.
“The fact that the great majority of objections have been dismissed basically confirms that the elections were generally fairly conducted.”
pm oniel with all due respects to you sir-you are wrong.giaman. the great majority of objections have been dismissed not bcos the elections were conducted fairly but because it is very hard to assemble evidence for a technical court like diputed returns and expensive requiring white lawyers who are smarter than our black one who have no ethics anyway.cc paraka I never invoiced k700 million-refer pngexposed website.cunning kan swipes like ben micah bribed his opponents who all though there was a chicken in their for them but all they got were the bones of village dogz from mussau.
den again, oniel paid micah k3 million before the election to pay off oil palm growers at a big feast at lemakot and paid chan k19 million 3 weeks before polling so ofcourse little fat highlands pm trying to be a white man continues to enjoy his *** plugged by mica and chan.mi giaman?
Re: JULIUS CHAN COMMITTED TO STAND TRAIL-IS NEXT TO GO
March 29 2013, 6:53 PM
Much has been said about my politics and my membership of the autonomy committee in nipz.i am not a ppp sympathiser.never will be. I am not a j chan supporter.never will be.but I serve the board bcos I need my bread and butter in the hope that governor chan might consider my compant tutuman timber co for road works projects like aloga 49 owned by derrol jees father.why not.you live once only and might as well make the most of it.i voted for myself and my wantok in 2012.thats what counts.and if my wantok wins the case, im back for round 2.
