Terrorists killed expat, says ex-MP

FORMER East New Britain (ENB) governor and deputy prime minister Sir Leo Dion has described the killing of a Chinese businessman in Kokopo as a tragic, cowardly and cold-blooded act.
“The killing was committed by ‘terrorists’, just like criminals, who have no respect for human lives,” he said.
On March 22, Weng Zugu, 58, from China’s Fujian city, who was the owner of TBT Supermarket in Takubar, was shot dead in the head by armed robbers.
The 10 robbers, armed with two homemade guns and other weapons such as bush knives, raided the shop at about 8.30am and held up workers.
Weng was shot when he tried to stop the robbers from harassing his workers.
Sir Leo said the recent trend of shooting and killing innocent people in Kokopo, like former police detective, late Jack Patiliu, should not be swept under the carpet but be treated seriously by the higher authorities.
He called for police investigations and prosecution of all those responsible in the recent cases of shooting in Kokopo.
As a former detective himself and Deputy Police Commissioner, Sir Leo said there were still many questions the public were asking on the Patiliu case.