Suspicious activities

THE term “deep state” was coined in the era of former United States president Donald Trump to describe the sinister moves of his opponents.
This has now come to mean the same to Papua New Guinea’s ruling regime.
It conjures a secretive illuminati of bureaucrats determined to sabotage the country’s general election.
Elections in the biggest Pacific island state started in early May and are now facing tougher hurdles as polling ends and counting begins.
While the causes of election problems can be attributed to a host of factors including lack of preparedness – no census and proper statistics to validate data and the common roll not updated – credible evidence strongly points towards deficiencies in the PNG Electoral Commission, particularly the set up in which the Government planned to have unabated control on the country’s elections.
The regime first replaced the Election Advisory Committee with a more purposeful intergovernmental arrangement involving key stakeholders, notably the secretary for Justice and Attorney-General and Police Commissioner.
This bureaucratic cabal has nexus linked to bankers, lawyers, heads of powerful corporations, and government agencies.
It was rumoured to have enormous funds at its disposal and wield so much power.
It is not considered healthy to ask too many questions about it.
But what is clear is that the illuminati do not only provide advise, but runs parallel with the Electoral Commission and, in most cases, overrides and/or counter decisions made by the Electoral Commissioner Simon Sinai.
Evidently, the secretary for the Department of Justice and Attorney General, Dr Eric Kwa, was heard saying on a talkback show that the PNGEC was not to be blamed for the election mayhem in Markham because the commission was merely a facilitator to what is decided by the special “intergovernmental advisory committee”.

David Lepi