Certain media firms will be banned from attending the University of Papua New Guinea’s planned rally next week.
The secretary of UPNG’s student representative council (SRC) Wesley Warun told Loop PNG: “EMTV, Post-Courier and The National will not be allowed to enter the campus next week because they are biased.”
UPNG’s current stance is for Prime Minister Peter O’Neill to step down and the two top cops, National Fraud and Anti-Corruption Directorate boss Matthew Damaru and Chief Inspector Timothy Gitua, be reinstated.
The institution believes that those three media houses are pro-O’Neill.
“Only foreign correspondents and other media organisations will be allowed into the campus,” Warun stated.
The SRC has scheduled a forum for next Monday where the students will deliberate further on the issue and the points that will be presented in their petition.
A protest is expected to follow soon after because more than two-thirds of the student body have signed in agreement of the act.
“There are more than 5000 internal students. For the petition to be effective, we need 3330 signatures, which we reached on Thursday,” said the SRC secretary.
(SRC secretary Wesley Warun, left, and science foundation student Benson Teine supervising the signing of the petition on Friday morning.)