Kulunga reinstates Yakasa

By JUNIOR UKAHA
POLICE Commissioner Tom Kulunga yesterday said he had welcomed the Somare regime appointed police commissioner Fred Yakasa back to the police headquarters at Konedobu.
He said Chief Supt Yakasa would resume his substantive position.
“Yakasa is (working) here with me at the headquarters,” he said.
“Police (work) is
normal and Yakasa is back.”
But he did not say what exactly Yakasa was doing while based at headquarters.
Yakasa could not be contacted yesterday to confirm his “posting”.
However, at a media conference on Jan 30, he maintained that he would not be ordered to go anywhere else but to remain in his substantive position.
In a letter on the same day, he asked Kulunga to reinstate his men who, he claimed, were unattached.
Kulunga said he could not remember receiving a letter from Yakasa but admitted that all the police personnel who had sided with Yakasa had “reported to their commander” – assistant commissioner of police NCD Central Francis Tokura. 
He said the men reported to Tokura last Thursday.
Yakasa earlier said the matter over his appointment as acting police commissioner by the Somare regime was before the court and “a matter for the court to decide”.
Meanwhile, when questioned about orders issued by senior judges of the Supreme Court to remove the heavy police barricade near the court house, Kulunga said he was in a meeting all day yesterday and did not have time to read the newspapers.