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Tuesday, February 13, 2007

Assassination claims faces credibility problems

PFnet news
13 February 2007

There are now serious doubts about the credibility of claims by the Police that the Australian government has sponsored an Australian Vietnam war veteran, Bill Johnson to assassinate Prime Minister Manasseh Sogavare.

This follows the unusual step which the Director of Public Prosecution Ronald Bei Talasasa took in open court last week not only to support Bill Johnson’s bail application, but Mr. Talasasa also attacked the credibility of the police claims of an Australian assassination plot to kill Prime Minister Sogavare, casting serious doubts about the assassination claim as a possible make up story.

Instead of supporting the police, the unusual step taken in open court by the Government’s Chief Prosecutor, Mr. Talasasa to attack the police investigations is likely to add credibility to the Opposition claim that the assassination claim has been made up to support the push by the Sogavare government to re-arm the Solomon Islands Police. The Government’s push re-arm the Solomon Islands Police has been opposed outright by the majority of the people of Solomon Islands. The Australian Government has also opposed re-arming the police.

The unusual step which Mr. Talasasa had taken in court may be confirming rumours of rising tension between the Director of Public Prosecution and the Acting Attorney General Mrs. Nuatali Tongarutu over respective roles and functions and Mrs. Tongarutu’s involvement in dealing with a number of recent controversial court cases.

The credibility of the case against Bill Johnson has come into serious questions after Mr. Talasasa took the unusual step in criticizing the criminal justice system of the country in the open court last week saying, “I would like to emphasise strongly that the criminal justice system in this country will not be allowed to be tainted to satisfy other people’s vendetta and, more so for police to make up stories.”

National Express understands that the court was told Johnson had allegedly planned the crime with four other unnamed people to assassinate the Prime Minister between the 18th and 23rd of January during a meeting at a Honiara motel.

But after he was arrested and appeared in the Honiara Magistrate Court Tuesday last week, he was charged and then released on bail after Solomon Islands Chief Prosecutor Talasasa supported the accused on the grounds of controversial police evidence saying the local police witnesses gave contradictory evidence against Mr. Johnson during the subsequent investigations.

Mr. Talasasa said: “It is very serious and the Director of Public Prosecution will not tolerate police personnel to concoct stories to satisfy their own personal interests.”

He went on to say: “I would like to emphasise strongly that the criminal justice system in this country will not be allowed to be tainted to satisfy other people’s vendetta and more so for police to make up stories.”

But in response to Mr. Talasasa’s statement in court, the Prime Minister and his government stated that it is a serious matter of concern.

More serious is the fact that the statement comes from the country’s Director of Public Prosecution. They questioned why police officers who made the original statements of their own free will now alleged to have altered their positions and been accused of making false statements?

Why were the investigations into the matter right from the beginning directed at the police officers rather than the alleged crime? Why is it that the alleged plot, which was disclosed by the accused himself of his own free will to a senior on duty police officer in a meeting organised at the request of the accused in a government office, is widely publicised as not credible because the man is described as “a happy drunk”?

In the statement, Mr. Sogavare stated that he is “personally insulted by the opposition’s statement that the allegation may have been framed to build support for the government’s plan to rearm the Close Protection Unit and seriously concerned about the serious implications of the sweeping statement by the DPP that the allegation was fabricated at the design of some authorities for their personal gain”.

The matter is now before the court but the Prime Minister said the allegations are serious and the government will not rest until they establish the motives and reasons behind why the DPP dared to make such statement when his office has yet to fully establish the truth behind the matter, especially when the case is still under investigation.

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