Ruby-Anne Laufa Trial Update

Posted on EMTV News Online

The accused in the murder of former Miss PNG Ruby-Anne Laufa is expected to testify in court at 9:30am tomorrow (Monday 30th September).

Richard Namaliu who has been charged with manslaughter in 2017 will be the main witness in the case between him and the state (representing the deceased).

His four day trial began last Wednesday (25th September 2019) and will end tomorrow.

He pleaded not guilty at the start of the trial.

Namaliu, who was deceased boyfriend at the time of her death, picked her up from her family home at Fort Banner, on their way out of the UPNG residential area the late Ruby-Anne fell out of the car and sustained head injuries.

She was rushed to a private hospital and later to Port Moresby General Hospital, but died hours later.

So far, seven witnesses have testified including late Ruby-Anne's father Maurice Laufa and the two security guards who were on duty at the time of the incident.

Late Ruby-Anne died from head injuries on 11th February 2017.

An autopsy report conducted on 13th February 2017 revealed that late Ruby-Anne's face had swelling around her eyes and bruises on her lips.

PM Marape condemns violence in City

By Tonny Maben - via Facebook

Prime Minister James Marape condemns violence in Port Moresby and call for people not to take law into their own hands. Our citizens must learn to restrain from violence at all times.

With violence brewing from many of our city settlements our government proposes the following to ensure our peace loving people in the settlements and city suburbs to live peacefully and co exist in modern PNG.

Our cities and urban areas have become areas where people from all parts of our country migrate into and to control lawful living, we will require all residents of cities to have a registered identification number through our National Identification program that will be linked through the census next year.

And working with lands department and city municipals we will require all people in city to register their address of residence so we account for all who lives in our cities and towns country wide.

Our settlements in hearts of town and cities will be looked at, with a priority to convert to planned suburbs and title preferences to those who have SMEs and are in employment of any form.

Our government will put in a low cost house loan scheme for proper housing to employed Papua New Guineans and working with lands and urban departments we will build proper planned residencies for proper identified people.

We will also start a program to identify people flying into Port Moresby and those towns accessible by air like Kokopo, Wewak, Lorengau, Kimbe, Kavieng, Vanimo, Daru, Buka/Aropa, Alotau and Popodetta.

From next year we will require all citizens and users of transportation mode in our country to have identification cards and upon boarding, they must indicate their place of residents.

After 2020 census , we will link all our citizens to national identification system that will link to our national government’s educational assistance schemes, free health programs or SME assistance schemes etc.

In the meantime PM Marape condemns violence at Erima settlement and says a special team lead by Police Minister to establish what triggers these violence.

If police are in the wrong , people must not use violence to seek justice but resort to justice system to address injustice. “ if my people from Tari are involved, and l will not hesitate in embarking on a program to send those who not in school or employment or SME sector back home.” PM Marape says.