PREMIER of Malaita Province, Daniel Suidani, has called on Alfred Sasako and the Solomon Star to be responsible for their reporting.
Speaking from Brisbane Australia in his quarantine hotel, Premier Suidani said he is concerned that Sasako continues to refer to the premier on his speculative stories.
A case in point is this latest front-page story on the armed group plotting to overthrow the government.
Sasako seemed to craft the story to look like the return of the premier is related to his story of the arm group’s plot to overthrow the government, Suidani said in a statement.
“This is most irresponsible of Sasako to have included me in this rather disturbing story. Such irresponsible news headlines will only create uncertainty and anxiety for me, my family, and the people of Malaita province.
“If Sasako’s aim is to come up with a story that creates a cloud so that there is a cover to try and arrest me on my arrival, I must strongly remind this man Sasako that such thinking would only come from those with a dark heart,” the premier stated.
The premier further said that he would have thought as a fellow Malaitan himself, Sasako should at least have the decency to allow him to return home in an atmosphere without suspicion. Instead, Sasako has been on a witch hunt on the premier in a way that is quite unprecedented.
It, therefore, begs the question of what is Sasako’s agenda against the premier’s medical trip to Taiwan. After all the premier’s trip to Taiwan has not incurred any costs to Mr. Sasako or anyone else. It was a trip that is funded by good-hearted friends and the Taiwanese government.
The premier, therefore, urged Sasako and the Solomon Star newspaper to refrain from using other people’s sorry situation for their ends. This is but a moral hazard to our society especially at a time we are confronted with the disease of the century, COVID 19, and other national developmental issues.
