N.Z. lawyer ordered to leave
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BATIRI BATAUA
NZPA-AAP , Bairiki, Kiribati The New Zealand lawyer, Roger Bell, who was declared “persona non grata” by the Kiribati Government late last year, was refused permission to enter the country on Sunday.
Police Commissioner Patrick Sommerville ordered him to leave on the plane on which he had arrived from Fiji after discussions with im-
migration officials. Mr Bell was then flown to Majero in the Republic of Marshall Islands.
He said from Majero yesterday that he had gone to Kiribati to assist in a law suit.
In the suit, scheduled for hearing yesterday, the vice-chairman of the Christian Democratic Party, Dr Harry Tong, was claiming that President leremia Tabai was not entitled to contest today’s presidential election.
Dr Tong claims Mr Tabai has already served the three elected terms which was the maximum allowed under the constitution. Mr Tabai says he assumed the .presidency on independence in 1979, thus his first term was not “elected.”
Mr Bell had previously served in Kiribati under New Zealand’s Volunteer Service Abroad scheme, and has a Gilbertese wife.
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