Agiru is chief’s deputy

SOUTHERN Highlands Governor Anderson Agiru has been appointed deputy leader in the Sir Michael Somare camp.
He replaces Wabag MP Sam Abal.
Tari-Pori MP James Marape said Agiru’s appointment over Sam Abal was a strategic move to attract more members of parliament into the Somare camp.
Marape said he had also resigned from national duties to “go back to prepare Hela and Tari-Pori for a good election”.
“We are in a crisis of politics and it is for the constitutional supremacy that my principles are deeply embedded. That I owe to the country, which is my children’s country,” he said.
Meanwhile, Agiru last week described the O’Neill-Namah government as illegal and “engaged in reckless attacks on constitutional institutions through a barrage of paranoid political vendettas”.
He said the tactics employed by the O’Neill government were that of “dictators and despots”.
“In order to cling to power, the O’Neill-Namah regime has engaged in dangerous attacks on the independence of many institutions enshrined by the Constitution,” he said.
“Throughout history, such tactics have been deployed by dictators and political despots. Such aggressive attacks on constitutional institutions are unprecedented in PNG. All these actions are improper and sinister,” Agiru said.