Who’s paying for the lawyers?

WE Papua New Guineans accept the term corrupt as a daily language in every part of our society.
Corruption maybe defined in many terms, however, the simple way to define it is that it is the “channeling of resources and information in a biased way that it benefits oneself”.
Greed is what drives corruption.
What we Papua New Guineans fail to understand is that the government of the day and its servants are being paid by us, the citizens of this country.
Our tax run this country and pay public servants.
In these days of economic crisis with the country trying to pay back debts, it is a slap in the face for every PNG citizen, or taxpayer, that a government entity like the University of Technology (Unitech) is hiring private lawyers to represent it in court.
Kesno Lawyers have represented Unitech on several occasions in the courts in Lae.
What troubles me as a taxpayer is the likelihood that the university does not have an in-house counsel. If that is the case, then as a government organization, Unitech should be represented by public solicitors or other State-paid lawyers.
Instead, the university is hiring the private firm of Kesno Lawyers to do its bidding.
I ask again, where is the money to write the cheques coming from? Is it coming from individual pockets or from the State?
Our country is struggling to make ends meet and yet government-run institutions are throwing money around as if we are filthy rich.

Concerned Citizen
PNG