Vacancies for Icac investigators: Chairman

THE INDEPENDENT Commission Against Corruption (Icac) needs investigators and prosecutors before it can be fully operational, says interim chairman Thomas Eluh.
“Icac has only 17 staff members, all of whom are in administration.
“We are lacking investigators and prosecutors,” Eluh said.
According to Icac’s approved structure, they can have 82 positions, including the commissioners.
But due to funding constraints, they could not recruit everyone at once.
He said the commissioners had already been appointed and would join them next month.
The three men are non-citizens.
The commissioner and the deputy commissioner (operations) are Australians.
The deputy commissioner (administration) is from New Zealand.
“We want to do recruitment in phases.
“The commissioners have been appointed.
“After that, we would like to recruit the executive directors, followed by the section leaders and then the operators,” he said.
He said corruption was “everyone’s business and Icac needs everyone’s support”.
“Corruption discourages foreign investment and interest,” he added.
PNG was recently ranked 30th out of 100 most corrupt countries in the world.
Eluh said when fully operational, Icac would be able to investigate and prosecute people involved in systematic corruption in any organisation.
Icac signed a memorandum of understanding with the National Research Institute (NRI) for the latter to support them with research on corruption in Papua New Guinea.
NRI director Dr Osborne Sanida said the NRI had published papers on the effects of corruption and had been looking forward to an opportunity to use them to push for change.