Western Governor Ati Wobiro case 2016

The bail application was filed this morning (Monday) and served to the Public Prosecutors office at 2.30pm.

It is expected to be moved early tomorrow morning (Tuesday) before a packed courtroom of families and supporters of the three.

Wobiro, Dr Gumoi and May been remanded at Bomana since their respective bails were forfeited last Tuesday after they were found guilty of conspiring to misappropriate state monies.

Tonight will be their seventh night at Bomana.  

Governor Wobiro, Western Provincial Administrator Dr Modowa Gumoi, and the founder of Fly Care Foundation Inc., Norman Carl May, were taken up to Bomana late yesterday afternoon.

They were brought back to Waigani this morning and are awaiting an urgent bail application.

Loop PNG confirmed that Wobiro’s lawyers will be filing that bail application this afternoon. The application has to show exceptional circumstances.

Following the handing down of the verdict just before lunch today, his lawyers of the Posman-Kua-Asi law firm indicated they will file for bail under section 10 of the bail act.

A bail application filed under section 10 of the bail act seeks bail after conviction and before sentencing.

His lawyers were told by the Court this morning that they have to show exceptional circumstance in order to be allowed bail.

They remain at the Waigani National Court house holding cell awaiting bail.

Governor Ati Wobiro and his co-accused; Provincial Administrator Dr Modowa Gumoi, and the chief of Fly Care Foundation Inc. Norman Carl May, were all convicted today by National Court judge, Justice Martin Ipang.

They were found guilty to have conspired in establishing the Fly Care Foundation between January 1and December 30, 2013, by using K7.6 million funding from the provincial government.

They conspired to misappropriate funds through a memorandum of agreement between Governor Wobiro and May for the Foundation to deliver projects in the province.