NATIONAL Party Leader and Sinasina Yongomugl MP Kerenga Kua has lashed out at the police and Government for serious discrimination against ordinary citizens and for establishing a vetting committee within the National Fraud and Anti-Corruption Directorate. The former Attorney General and Minister for Justice, has claimed that the proposal by the Police Force to establish the vetting committee within the directorate is ill considered and unconstitutional. He said its proposed primary function is to ensure that a committee comprising of people from the police and Public Prosecutor’s office screen all investigations against “high profile” people before any arrests are made. He said the immediate question to answer is as to why “high profile” people should be given a special preferential treatment. “Why isn’t it that ordinary citizens who are suspected of the same crime are not accorded the same treatment. Would similar procedures be available in all police stations throughout Papua New Guinea for the benefit of all ordinary people,” Mr Kua asked. Mr Kua said the Constitution says that all citizens must be treated equally. “They have the same rights, privileges, obligations, and duties irrespective of race, tribe, place of origin, political opinion, color, creed, religion or sex. There is nothing in the constitution which says that high profile people would be given more privileges and rights as opposed to ordinary people,” he said. He said the Police Commissioner’s options now are to revoke the entire arrangement or alternatively ensure that the same privilege is available to every citizen right throughout the country.
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