A Papua New Guinean academic and lawyer says a new partnership signed by police and a South African miner sends the wrong message to the public.
PNG police commissioner David Manning this week announced that police would work together with Morobe Consolidated Goldfields, which is owned by South African company Harmony, to address law and order issues in the Wau/Bulolo area of Morobe Province.
An Australian National University graduate student and practicing PNG lawyer, Bal Kama, told Koroi Hawkins that given the long history of conflict between landowners and miners in PNG this arrangement raises questions about the impartiality and objectivity of police.
Papua New Guinean academic and lawyer, Bal Kama. Photo: Australian National University
