Irate students burn newspapers

Sunday 8th may, 2016
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
University of Papua New Guinea students burnt The National Newspapers and Post Couriers on Friday morning after they assumed the papers to be biased in their stories on what actually was happening at Waigani campus.
The students who have boycotted classes since Monday are demanding the Prime Minister, Peter O’Neil to step aside and submit himself for questioning and for Police Commissioner Gari Baki to reinstate Fraud Squad Director Matthew Damaru and re-open the Fraud squad office as per the court’s direction.
The student representative council who had on Monday and Tuesday put a ban on media to not enter the campus had uplifted the ban on Wednesday last week.
According to President Kenneth Ropa, the media is an important partner in the student’s cause and had called the media to come into campus.
The students who did not want to be named said they were on their way to the bus stop to do public awareness about their course when they noticed that the dailies did not report facts surrounding their boycott.
Frustrated, they set fire to almost 600 papers in the middle of the University crossing and carried some of it into the main campus were they burnt the rest of it. More than 800 papers from both National Newspaper and Post Courier were taken by the students.
Ronald Boas who is the only seller of both papers confirmed the students’ reaction.
“Yes they took the papers and burnt them but the rest of them they took them into the campus. I managed to sell only a few in the morning but it will definitely be a loss to the companies,” He said.
Editor of Post Courier Todagia Kelola told NBC NEWS PNG that media only plays their role in disseminating the information’s and such actions by the intellectuals were uncalled for.
Student Representative Council representative Sandy Kipan said;
“The students themselves did it out of frustration as since the movement started no factual stories had been published in the two daily papers. The students felt our side of the story wasn’t published or heard.”

 



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