A Quick Glimpse of the Political Leadership in Papua New Guinea for the last 38 years 1. No debate of bills, policies and legislations on the floor of parliament. Only MPs in the Opposition oppose. All MPs in the government support whether right or wrong but only go against when in the opposition. 2. Get K10 million every year and K50million for five years but there is less evidence of that money being spent in their districts 3. Don’t have a standardized development plan for every district and province to distribute the country’s wealth, goods and services equally and fairly to develop all parts of the country. 4. Always boast about building temporarily, substandard, low quality, poor design and very high cost infrastructures that deteriorate quickly. 5. Only concern about exploiting the natural resources sector but don’t bother about other sectors to diversify the economy away from the traditional commodity based to an agricultural and rural based to reach the bulk of the rural population. 6. No morning mechanisms, checks and balances to monitor government funded projects resulting in millions of kina disappear through ghost and scam project proposals. 7. Allow corruption to consume more than half of the budget every year. Yet they talk about the country’s challenges and problems. 8. Billions of kina of public funds are reportedly stolen every year under their watch. Yet they don’t know who the criminals are and how they steal the money. 9. Boast about a bottled-neck free education that produces more failures with less job opportunities and no skills. 10. Can’t fix or overhaul a dysfunctional public service system in the country. Yet they pass big budget plans that never get fully implemented. 11. Allow guns to remain in the hands of wrong people. Yet complain bitterly about law and order problems in the country. 12. During the elections they allow killing of innocent lives they want to serve and allow the destruction of services they want to provide. 13. Don’t have long-term plans for city and town modernisation and expansion. 14. Boast about the good outlook of the economy that means nothing to a poor rural subsistence farmer in a village. 15. Can’t control the high cost of living in the country forcing the working class people to live just above the poverty line. 16. Don’t have long-term plans for food security, energy security, and internal and external security threats 17. Don’t have a urban and rural housing scheme 18. Allow the police force to be outnumbered and overpowered by ethnic groups and tribal groups. These are deep problems, painful problems, problems that quick fixes will not solve them. Yet they are getting worse with time. There is but one major problem in the country – is the leadership problem. Everything else rises and falls on leadership. The leadership in this country has proved incapable of running this country. by Lucas Kiap- Patriot
Posted on: Fri, 27 Sep 2013 12:23:27 +0000
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