Overseas home buyers must be checked

Letters, Normal
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The National, Thursday 02nd Febuary 2012

WE assert that it is the business of PNG citizens to know which of their leaders (politicians and public office holders) maintain homes and businesses in overseas countries.
These are public officials; these leaders are paid by our tax payers.
Our leaders have made a commitment and taken oaths to serve the country rather than their pockets through their positions of power and influence.
This means that while they are in public service they should be spending their time serving the people, not looking after their businesses.
On a MP’s salary, even a prime minister’s salary, it is impossible to afford properties in any first world country for that matter.
Cunning politicians tell their collaborators to find them some real estate overseas and then use state funds to secure these properties, be they houses, farms, motels or service stations.
In an age where information is readily available, if we continue to live in ignorance and say “it’s not our business”, then we are not helping ourselves and the bulk of the people.
We all have to help in exposing corruption.

Peter Amos Monex
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