Namah calls for PM's arrest

PNG opposition leader. Belden Namah. Getty

Opposition leader  MP Belden Namah is querying why police have not enforced a court order for the arrest of three senior politicians for allegedly defrauding the State.

Namah says the Police Commissioner has been ignoring the court order and he will be pushing for that to happen.

On November 23, 2013, the Grade Five Committal Court in Waigani issued a warrant of arrest for Prime Minister Peter O’Neill, Finance Minister James Marape and Treasurer Don Polye.

“It seems we have two sets of laws in this country. One for politicians and the other for the small people,” says Namah.

The warrant of arrest was believed to have stemmed from the involvement of the trio in the Paul Paraka saga.

“This, I view as high level corruption by the prime minister and his senior ministers and departmental heads, who together committed a post millennium fraud of the decade in our country.”

Source: PNG Today / PNG EDGE