A Papua New Guinea museum director says the destruction of adornments at parliament is illegal.
The Post Courier reports that Andrew Moutu, who heads the National Museum and Art Gallery, has lodged a police complaint in response to the speaker's decision to do away with the traditional carvings.
Contractors have chopped off the top of an intricately carved totem pole to begin its dismantling in defiance of a personal intervention by the Prime Minister, Peter O'Neill.
The country's founding PM, Sir Michael Somare, has called on the speaker, Theo Zurenuoc, to resign.
