the whale v the cleaner ... reuters

Reuters - 9 August 2006
edited by Dolph Lungren

An epic battle in looming between one of the worlds best known African mining experts Jam Sonah and a lowly unemployed office cleaner based in Perth W.A.

A speculative exploration company know as Range Resources has apparently dismissed the only paid staff member - an office cleaner - for allegedly destroying key relationships with multiple JV partners who were falling over each other to sign up to exploration in the semi autonomous region of Puntland in the Horn of Africa.

The cleaner was interview at the Centrelink office in Joondalup just outside Perth and said he didn't know what the fuss was about. He knew the cheques couldn't have been real 'cause the waz too many zero's and it was yankee dollars - you can't use them down here . . '

Jam Sonah, Pike Movey and Lete Pandau were all seen at the airport frantically booking flights all over the globe in an attempt to control the damage.