Buaki Singeri

Buaki Singeri (1937 – June 1987) was a Papua New Guinean politician. He served as a member of the House of Assembly and National Parliament from 1972 until 1977.

Buaki Singeri
Member of the National Parliament
In office 1972–1977
Preceded by	Rauke Gam
Succeeded by	Tani Kungo
Constituency	Kabwum Open
Personal details
Born	1937 Indagen, New Guinea
Died	June 1987

Biography

Singeri was born in 1937 in the village of Indagen in the Territory of New Guinea.[1] He attended a mission school between 1948 and 1955 and spent 1956 in an Administration School.[1] Between 1957 and 1961 he trained as a Medical Assistant at the Papua Medical College in Port Moresby.[1] He subsequently worked as a clerk in the Department of District Administration in Kabwum from 1962 to 1967 and owned a coffee plantation.[1] He married and had five children.[1]

Singeri contested the Kabwum seat in the 1968 general elections, finishing second to eventual winner Rauke Gam in first preference votes.[2] However, he defeated Gam in the 1972 elections and was elected to the House of Assembly, which was renamed the National Parliament at independence in 1975. In the 1977 elections he finished third in the first-preference vote tally and was unseated by Tani Kungo.[3] He contested the Lae constituency in the 1982 elections, but finished eighth out of nine candidates.[3]

He died in June 1987 following a long illness.[4]

References

1. Members of the Third House of Assembly, p48
2. Primary count details in New Guinea election Pacific Islands Monthly, April 1968, p29
3. Papua New Guinea Election Results 1972 – 2012 Development Policy Centre
4. Transitions Pacific Islands Monthly, August 1987, p52