Namah stops arrest

PNG Opposition Leader Belden Namah stops Arrest.

Opposition Leader Belden Namah has taken out court orders stopping police from arresting him.

Mr. Namah took out the orders this morning from National Court judge Justice Catherine Davani, in an urgent "camera" hearing.

Police Commissioner Tom Kulunga issued directions for Namah's arrest on Saturday, for allegedly threatening him.

Lawyer Alois Jerewai whose representing the Opposition Leader has written to Commissioner Kulunga, telling him to cancel his directions to arrest Mr. Namah.

Copies of the letter made available to the media says in parts, that Mr. Namah poses no threat to Mr. Kulunga, and that his interpretation of an initial letter by Mr. Namah is wrong and his claim is of an unfounded and non-existent threat.

The matter will return to court tomorrow morning at half-past-9.

Mr. Namah's Gordons residence in Port Moresby has been crowded with public since morning giving him support, following news of the Commissioner's direction to arrest him.

Mr. Namah told hundreds who gathered at his house, that his security guards had a heated argument with some police units who had gone there to arrest him earlier. PNG Today/NBC