The local weeklies were back to normal this week after the general election,and were featuring a range of front page news stories.

The Taimi ...‘o Tonga featured ...‘Etuate Lavulavu, his bogus Ph.D. and professorship, and the possibility that he may become a Temo to try and get back into parliament.

The Talaki reported a possible challenge of the outcome of the Ha'apai election because of alleged dual registration by some voters.

The Kele'a captured the attention of the reading public with the second and the final part of an interview of Shoreline whistle-blower Piveni Piukala, by Tavake Fusimalohi.

Piveni, the former computer programmer for Shoreline revealed some inside information about the alleged exorbitant spending by the director of Shoreline, Sosefo Ramanlal, and the transferring of thousands of dollars from Shoreline to private accounts of Sosefo and Soane Ramanlal in New Zealand.

In the Kele'a interview Piveni challenged the Crown Prince Tupouto'a, "that if I am lying about the two Indians then my head should be chopped off. But if I am telling the truth then he should free the people from their problem with electricity."

Also featured on the front page are photos of Piveni, the Crown Prince Tupouto...’a, Sosefo Ramanlal, and a snap of Soane Ramanlal.

According to Piveni the accounts of Shoreline and Tonfön were audited annually by Kivalu Ramanlal a brother of Sefo and Soane, who lives in Hawaii. He claimed that the audited report was questionable because during the 2002-03 financial year, according to Kivalu, Shoreline made a profit of $600k. At the same month ANZ came out with their own audited account of Shoreline, showing a loss of $6 million. He claimed that about this time the General Manager of ANZ in Melbourne recommended to Tupouto'a to dismiss the management of Shoreline.

Piveni told the Kele'a that two years after Shoreline's initial loan from ANZ of about $35 million, no repayment was ever made and that when ANZ wanted to end its business relationship with Shoreline, that was when they turned around and said that the ANZ was a bad bank. Piveni said that Shoreline loans would not be fully repaid before the end of their 10-years lease of the power generation from the Tonga Electric Power Board, so when it would be returned to government, then the people would finish repaying the loans.

Piveni believed that the problem with Shoreline would cause disloyalty by the people toward the Crown Prince and the Royal Family.

He proposed for a public prayer service to be held at Pangai on Sunday April 10 to show the Royal Family that the people are not happy with what is going on.

The Kele'a reported that Piveni had left Tonga with his family for overseas, after he was threatened.