Ted Diro

Grand Chief Brigadier Edward Ramu (Ted) Diro, GCL, CBE (born 14 December 1943) is a Papua New Guinean politician and soldier.

He resigned from Cabinet in November 1987 over mounting controversy around alleged corruption while he was Minister for Forests and having received undeclared campaign funds from Leonardus Benjamin Moerdani, the head of the Republic of Indonesia Armed Forces.

He was Deputy Prime Minister under Namaliu from April 1990 to October 1991, when he was convicted by a leadership tribunal of 81 counts of official misconduct.

[9] In January 2017, he unsuccessfully sought the role of Governor-General of Papua New Guinea, with the term of incumbent Sir Michael Ogio due to expire.

[10] On 9 July 2018 Loop announced that Papua-New Guinea's first Guardian class patrol vessel would be named HMPNGS Ted Diro.