Pangu Pati

Many have commended her for making the brave move to the party.

Transparency International PNG (TIPNG) chairman Lawrence Stephens has also commended Ms Somare for the brave move.  

“From my few encounters with this young woman, she is very much an independent thinker and doer who will create her own footsteps worthy of others following.

“Of course she has the heritage of being part of a family itself part of the political process in PNG but this seemed to have strengthened her own efforts to find her own path,” he said.

He described her as a mother and guardian of Pangu Pati.

Sir Michael and his wife, Lady Veronica, attended the requiem mass at the Saint Joseph’s Church at Boroko today.

He said, “the late Lady Elizabeth was a pillar of support for her late husband’s cause to achieve self determination for the people of Papua and New Guinea.

“We were fragmented and not a united people in those years. But our common goal of self- determination brought people like the late Albert Maori Kiki, Cecil Abel, Paliau Maluat and me, together with Sir Pita Lus and others.

Mr Basil made the remark at the Opposition’s Christmas party in the Parliament’s State Function room in Port Moresby last Friday.

“We all will come back refreshed in the next year and I am looking forward to taking the fight much stronger this time against the current regime for a change in government,” he said.

He said the current Opposition Leader Don Polye, his predecessor Belden Namah, Rabaul MP Dr Allan Marat among others were instrumental in putting in place the O’Neill-led government.