By ELIZABETH MIAE
LEADERS of four NCD-based NGO groups claimed they were threatened by police while staging a public forum on the Julian Moti issue at Tabari place, Boroko yesterday.
Presidents of Eda Hanua Moresby Philip Kepan, PNG Millennium Good Governance Southern branch Victor Kongop, PNG National Awareness Front Noel Anjo and NCD Informal Sector Youth Association Benjamin Pokapen claimed the incident happened in the morning where armed police officers walked into the arena where the speakers were and ordered them to stop the forum immediately.
They claimed that they were advised by the NCD/Central divisional commander Alfred Reu that such forums could provoke the public to become rowdy and had the potential to become violent.
However, the four group leaders claimed that they were simply holding an awareness forum and did not try to instigate violence.
They were told to formally write to the police commissioner seeking permission to hold such a meeting.
The main topic of discussion at the forum was NGOs and the civil society’s demand that the Prime Minister must resign over the Moti issue.

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