Kua: Better screening process needed at Government House

GOVERNMENT House must be properly funded so that the head of state has a pool of qualified people to check the integrity of each legal instrument placed before the governor-general for signing, PNG Law Society president Kerenga Kua says.
Kua criticised the vice-regal office “for its continuous lack of close scrutiny of legal documents arriving at Government House”.
“It is disappointing to see that the governor-general has seen fit to accept the NEC’s advice to suspend the chief justice,” he said.
“There is nothing in the Constitution that says that the governor-general is bound by the advice and recommendations of the National Executive Council.
“All it says is that, he (or she) can only act upon and in accordance with the advice of the NEC. 
“The head of state’s indiscriminate acceptance of the advice of parliament on Aug 2 in swearing in the current prime minister led to the crisis, the subject of the Supreme Court reference No.3 of 2011.
“His (GG’s) latest acceptance of the NEC recommendation to suspend the chief justice suggests to me that there is no process within the Government House at Konedobu which allows for a check on the veracity and legality of all instruments arriving there for signature,” Kua said.