Police Comm David Manning to testify in former police minister Bryan Kramer's tribunal

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Police Comm David Manning to testify in former police minister Bryan Kramer's tribunal

PORT MORESBY: Police Commissioner David Manning will appear as a State witness before a leadership tribunal to explain the dismissal of former police legal director Paul Nii.

Manning is expected to respond to the statement made by Stater witness Nii, now a magistrate, to the tribunal this wwwk with regards his dismissal from the constabulary.

The tribunal is looking into 14 allegations against former police minister Bryan Kramer by the Ombudsman Commission.

The tribunal’s proceedings were reported by The National:

Manning to testify in Kramer tribunal

November 11, 2022The NationalMain Stories

David Manning

POLICE Commissioner David Manning will appear as a State witness before a Leadership Tribunal to explain the dismissal of former police legal director Paul Nii.
Manning is expected to respond to the statement made by State witness Nii, now a committal court magistrate, to the tribunal this week as regards his dismissal from the constabulary.
The tribunal is looking into 14 allegations against former police minister Bryan Kramer by the Ombudsman Commission.
Nii testified that Kramer was trying to influence Manning to have him sacked.
Manning is expected to clarify to the tribunal about the use of rental cars which he said had led to Nii’s sacking in 2020.
The leadership tribunal is chaired by Judge Lawrence Kangwia. The panel members are magistrates Josephine Nidue and Edward Komia.
Nii testified on Tuesday that he was sacked by Manning because he refused to allow police to arrest former prime minister Peter O’Neill because there was a court restraining order on the arrest.
But Kramer’s lawyer Miglshi Giruakonda argued that Nii’s sacking was not linked to Kramer when he was the police minister.
“You were terminated for keeping two vehicles and using it under the expense of police force,” Giruakonda told Nii.
Judge Lawrence Kangwia told Giruakonda that “the facts by the witness were straight but you are arguing that he is terminated for something else”.
Nii told the tribunal that he was using a car on a private arrangement.
But Giruakonda argued that a letter written by the hire car firm stated that it was one of the cars hired by the police department.

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