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Author: Wa-ke Igini
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Date Posted: Thu, Jun 21 2007, 08:30:01am
In reply to:
Uluwan
's message, "What happening in Kandep?" on Wed, Jun 13 2007, 01:59:56pm
Chicko,
Did you see Tuesdays (19/06/07)News?......If NOT then read the news below.
Yupela ol liklik mangi ya, Peter Mission, Not Match To King Polye..!!!!
"Candidate charged with attempted murder" - 19/06/07
A CANDIDATE in the Enga province has been arrested and charged with attempted murder.
Kandep Open candidate Peter Mision was arrested and charged by Wabag police last Friday with one count of attempted murder under section 304 of the Criminal Code.
Police allege that Mision was among a group of people who attempted to shoot Deputy Prime Minister Don Polye during an election rally in Kandep on June 9.
Provincial police commander Superintendent Teddy Tei confirmed the arrest of Mision yesterday and added that police were seeking to interview three other candidates and two of their supporters.
Mr Tei said that Mision, 40, from Pobo village in the Kandep district, was charged by Enga police after he was alleged to have been among the four candidates who mobilised their supporters and disrupted a rally organised for Mr Polye in Kandep.
Highlands divisional police commander, Assistant Police Commissioner Simon Kauba said Mision was released on K1,400 bail by the Mt Hagen National Court last Saturday.
Mision was represented by lawyer from the Public Solicitor’s office George Korei, who made the trip from Wabag to Mt Hagen to seek bail from Justice Allen David.
Mr Korei told The National from Wabag that his client maintains that there was no attempt to assassinate anyone in Kandep.
“We will be defending the charge vigorously. We have evidence that suggest the charge was politically motivated to derail his elections. We ask police to be neutral in their duties,” the defence lawyer said.
Mision has a case pending in the National Court against Mr Polye, in which he claims Mr Polye failed to nominate properly.
He is seeking to have Mr Polye removed from the ballot.
His arrest has added a new twist to contest.
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