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by PAUL L KEBAIJA Start with the roll. Contrary to the common complaint that nothing has happened, the Electoral Commission has been signing provincial MOAs and standing up ward enrolment committees since mid-2026, and acting Commissioner Margaret Vagi has said the aim is a preliminary roll in place by November or December. That is the correct sequence. The problem is what sits underneath it. The Commission drew K50 million in the 2026 national budget, while the National Capital District alone estimates it needs around K7 million just to prepare its voters. Four electorates in Port Moresby, on flat ground, with roads. Now price Hela, Enga and the Star Mountains against the same arithmetic. The technology promised as the fix has already been quietly downgraded. By March 2026 the Commission reported that not a fraction of the roughly US$16 million allocated for a biometric system had reached it, and officials now describe the NCD exercise as a photo roll, putting a face to a name for...

Powes Parkop went to Sydney on On Friday 12th May 2017 and returned late afternoon Sunday 14th May 2017, while in Sydney he met with Susan Merrell to plan on the upcoming elections. Merrell is by now a well known surrogate who has made a living crafting skills in doing hit pieces on opposition parties she is paid to destroy. Within the walls of  NCD Governor's office and the City Hall staff offices there is now a growing air of suspicion that there is an ongoing love affair between Susan Merrell and Governor Powes Parkop. Whether this is true or false it is only shared by a few privileged ones including a source very close to Governor Parkop. So far as our source can recall, Susan Merrell started visiting the Governor's Office early this year. She was given a lot of time and space to be with the Governor and was given a fully armed body guard to be with her on call 24 hours while she stay up at the Stanley Hotel suites. Our source recalled several times seeing Mr Parkop...