Abel orders inquiry into misuse of K440mil

ACTING Prime Minister and Treasurer Charles Abel has instructed the Attorney-General and Police Minister to begin a Commission of Inquiry into the PNG Sustainable Development Programme Company.
This is to follow up on Prime Minister Peter O’Neill’s statement in Parliament that a commission would be set to look into the company, in particular the allegations of the “misuse” of K440 million.
Abel said the allegations were “alarming”.
O’Neill had told Parliament that that the commission of inquiry would explain the PNGSDP mitigation process because the issue about the environmental damage in the Ok Tedi Mining had been well debated and well documented.
He said a lot of questions needed to be answered and people who made those decisions should be “answerable”.
O’Neill said Papua New Guineans deserved to know that truth.