A Papua New Guinea corruption watchdog has warned that civil discontent over alleged government corruption is growing.
The group say there could be a violent public backlash because of the ever increasing number of corrupt dealings in the Government.
Transparency International’s PNG boss Mike Manning says the breakdown of law and order is getting worse.
“We don’t have any answers immediately as to how we fix a single part of the breakdown of the system of law and order and the breakdown of the systems which would control corruption,” he said.
“But we do know that we’re reading about them day after day after day and that they’re getting worse.”
Transparency International PNG has also criticised government agencies like the Ombudsman Commission for not following through with investigations into leadership issues.
Failed State definition:
A state could be said to “succeed” if it maintains, a monopoly on the legitimate use of physical force within its borders. When this is broken (e.g., through the dominant presence of warlords, militias, or terrorism), the very existence of the state becomes dubious, and the state becomes a failed state.
