Commentary by Petrus GAND 

PNG’s political empire is known to give ultimate authority to the mandated parliamentarians. Although we thrive as a sovereign state with our Australian-British copy-paste constitution, it is obvious to be in its colonial form, exerting excessive power on the rulers.

It remains the leaders’ responsibility to enrich the rights and welfare of the citizens so they may achieve a common good and enjoy happiness together. Instead, our politicians are known to protect their personal-interest more often, with the aim to remain the big-men in the social order.

Plato’s thoughts maintain that we must not rely on the laws to make the state an ideal state as politicians will get around the laws to guard themselves. Indeed PNG's judiciary system is compromised with the legislative and executive branch, crafting more avenues for corruption.

Certain areas of our sensitive-sectors still have many policy gaps that are deliberately overlooked and disregarded by MPs because if it were fetched, it might as well attack them. Consequently, it impels negative effects on the problem from bad to worse or to put it bluntly, it is like adding fuel to the fire.

​Over the last decade, weak, defenseless and unarmed members of the general public have developed extreme fear with members of the Royal Papua New Guinea Polic Force.

Not only the harmless ordinary citizens but to a greater extend the members of the PNG Defense Force and top CEOs, highly educated Papua New Guineans and even the foreigners or the tourists have already developed hatred and fear with members of the Royal Papua New Guinea Constabulary.

As far as everyone is concerned, this fear and hatred is caused due to the unprofessional and unethical conduct shown to the public by members of the Royal Papua New Guinea Constabulary

​NINE policemen in East Sepik were arrested and detained yesterday at Wewak Police Station after being charged by the internal investigation unit from Port Moresby relating to the burning down of 13 houses in Wewak in October.
East Sepik police commander Albert Beli said the policemen were charged under the Criminal Code Act and were not allowed police bail but would appear in court to be granted bail.

​A POLICE officer is being blamed for the shooting to death of a 17-year-old Jiwaka youth in Banz on Monday.
The youth’s father, Felix Brown, is a police officer in
Mt Hagen and a member of the Ngantskup tribe near Banz.
The youth, Mond, was a student at the Waghi Valley Secondary School. His death triggered retaliation by the youth’s relatives, led by Brown.