Member for North-Fly Boka Kondra has filed a Supreme Court application to ask the court to stay his dismissal from office.
Kondra’s lawyers filed an application seeking to stay the National Court’s decision of March 1 which dismissed his judicial review.
The matter came before the Chief Justice, Sir Salamo Injia today where a hearing date was set.
A three-judge Supreme Court bench will hear the application on June 15.
On March 1, the National Court upheld the decision of the Leadership tribunal recommending Kondra to be dismissed from office.
Justice Collin Makail dismissed Kondra’s judicial review and also ordered him to pay costs for the proceeding.
On April 27, 2015, Kondra was found guilty to six counts of misconduct in office.
He was found guilty of applying DSIP funds to pay for his office rental in Kiunga, to pay for his family accommodation in Port Moresby and settling a personal debt from the 2007, prior to his election into office.
The tribunal found all these payments were made from the district treasury account when the Member was already receiving allowance for accommodation and office rental.
On May 29, 2015, Tribunal members Justice Salatiel Lenalia and senior magistrates Ignatius Kurei and Rosie Johnston recommended the leader to be dismissed from office.
On July 14,2015, a stay was granted at the National Court against the tribunal’s decision recommending Kondra’s dismissal from office. This stay was dismissed when the judicial review was thrown out on March 1.