Huku: Vehicle in accident stolen

DOROTHY Huku, the women’s representative in the Southern Highlands provincial executive council, said the vehicle involved in a fatal car accident on Sunday was stolen from her home.
Huku, who has been in Port Moresby for more than two weeks seeking medical treatment said she was shocked when she received calls from her neighbours informing her of the fatal accident in which her official vehicle was involved. Two people died.
She said she was told that two men – Olsie Tom of Kambrep village and Mathew Boen of Kuyanda village in Mendi – went to her home and managed to convince her housekeeper that they had been permitted to take the vehicle.
She learnt that the two men were passing the vehicle from one to the other for their personal use despite her pleas to have it returned.
Huku said the two men had avoided her phone calls.
She also said provincial police commander Supt Teddy Tei comments in the media were defamatory and portrayed her in a bad light.
Tei had questioned how Huku could have allowed the vehicle assigned to her to be used for illegal purposes such as alcohol smuggling. 
Huku said: “As a provincial women’s leader, how you can expect me to facilitate a malicious and dubious deals to illegally smuggle alcohol into the province?”
She said Tei was fully aware that she had moved a motion to ban alcohol in the province to curb criminal activities and protect women.
She said Tei should have contacted her
before talking to the media.