24 Jan 2012

PNG row sees Somare side accused of corrpution

3:40 pm on 24 January 2012

Papua New Guinea's Sir Michael Somare has been accused of spending more than 30 billion US dollars in the past six years without the country seeing any tangible changes.

The newspaper, The National, reports the Deputy Prime Minister Belden Namah, as saying a few selfish and corrupt ministers in the Somare regime had benefitted from the money.

He says claimed they were the same people fighting to have Sir Michael back as prime minister so they could have access to state funds.

Mr Namah says the Peter O'Neill led government wants to make sure that people get what is owed to them.