ALLEGATIONS OF ATTEMPTED ASSASSINATION OR CONSPIRACY TO KILL MADE BY NIXON DUBAN ‘ABSURD’ SAYS BRYAN KRAMER ///////////////////////////////// Bryan Kramer has described allegations by Minister of Petroleum and Member for Madang Nixon Duban that Kramer attempted to assassinate or conspired to kill him as absurd and baseless. Criminal Investigation Division officers are investigating the complaint by Duban against Kramer. Officers leading the investigations obtained a search warrant on Kramers residence in Madang last week Friday. Duban is claiming Kramer conspired to have him killed at the Polling Counting Centre in Jomba Catholic Parish in Madang when Duban was declared the winner of the 2013 By-Election. Kramer was the runner up in 2013 Madang Open Seat By-Election. The National Court ordered the By-Election after finding Duban guilty of committing bribery and fraud during the 2012 General Elections for the same seat. Kramer, Duban and sixteen other candidates recontested the By-Election in September 2013. Duban was returned, however Kramer has taken it back to Court on allegations of wide-scale vote rigging including further allegations of bribery and fraud committed by Duban. Kramer who is currently in Port Moresby for his election petition against Duban explained that he wrote to Madang Provincial Police Commander (PPC) Sylvester Kalaut this week to advise him that he is aware of the investigations and that these allegations are clearly invented by Duban in a desperate attempt to discredit him and divert attention from Dubans criminal prosecution in relation to bribery and fraud charges in the 2012 General Elections, as well as Kramers election petition. The latter case is now before the Courts listed for trial in Madang in two weeks. Kramer alleges that the witnesses Duban is relying on to support his complaint have been bribed to give false statements. “Duban attempted the same method in the prosecution of my 2012 Election Petition by inducing a number of my witnesses with district project funding to commit perjury in his defence. In the end the National Court Judge formed the view that his witnesses gave false testimony and requested the Madang Police to have them investigated”, Kramer said. In his letter to the PPC, Kramer said that he is happy to make himself available with his lawyer to be interviewed over the fictitious allegations, and produce two witnesses and disputable evidence in his defence. “Should your officers still believe there is reasonable grounds to formally charge me then I respect their constitutional duty to do so and shall defend the charges in the Courts. Im currently out of the Province but willing to fly back to Madang anytime next week for an interview”, Kramer wrote.
Posted on: Fri, 18 Jul 2014 09:42:51 +0000
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