Papua New Guinea Opposition leader Don Polye has called on Public Prosecutor Pondros Kaluwin to resign for “failing to have Prime Minister Peter O’Neill referred to a leadership tribunal”.
Polye questioned the manner in which the matter had been handled since it was referred to Kaluwin by the Ombudsman Commission on Aug 12, 2014. “He sat on these straightforward allegations for two months, and in early October 2014, asked the Ombudsman Commission for further evidence. “Then in December, he requested the Chief Justice to appoint a leadership tribunal,” he said. Polye is concerned that the public prosecutor had in court dropped two of the three allegations the Ombudsman Commission had brought against O’Neill. He said Kaluwin then added “two of his own allegations”. O’Neill is challenging in court the powers of the public prosecutor to refer him to the tribunal. The National Court last week referred the matter to the Supreme Court to determine the “constitutional issues” on the matter. “Kaluwin’s conduct of the allegations against O’Neill has given rise to constitutional questions,” he said. He questioned “whether it is usual in the administration of the leadership code that the Public Prosecutor abandons allegations” forwarded by the Ombudsman Commission. “I call on the Public Prosecutor to resign in order to preserve public confidence in the office of the Public Prosecutor.”
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