Whistle Blowers

In a statement issued this week, Commissioners Sir Salamo Injia and Margaret White said following the public hearing conducted last week, April and May will be spent on analyzing Phase 1 of the hearings and preparing for oral hearings of Phases 2 and 3.

Phases 2 and 3 will examine the 2009 International Petroleum Investment Company (IPIC) transactions and the UBS/Oil Search transactions in 2014 and 2016.

Justice Ipang made these remarks in court on Friday when sentencing Western Governor Ati Wobiro, former Western Provincial Administrator Dr Modowa Gumoi, and Fly Care Foundation Inc. boss Norman Carl May to 10 years in prison.

He said certain individuals in the Western Province were not happy with the MOA which was led to Fly Care Foundation Inc being the caretaker administrator of development projects in the province.