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Belden Namah
Deputy Prime Minister of Papua New Guinea
Belden Namah (born 30 December 1969) is a Papua New Guinean politician. Namah is a member of the National Parliament for the Papua New Guinea Party, and has represented Vanimo-Green River District since 2007.
He served in the Cabinet from 2007 to 2010, and as Deputy Prime Minister from 2011 to 2012.
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In 2012, Namah became a member of the opposition. After retaining his seat in the 2022 election, he said that he would not rejoin the opposition.[1]
Military career
Namah is from Vanimo, near Papua New Guinea's border with Indonesia.[2] He joined the military, graduated from Australia's Royal Military College in Duntroon, and was trained for a special-forces unit (SFU).
During the Sandline affair, Namah was one of five PNG Defence Force (PNGDF) officers who arrested Sandline International founder Tim Spicer. Sandline had been hired by the PNG government to recapture the Panguna mine on Bougainville Islan