K700 million missing from the Treasury and no one says anything really. (I'll be glad for more info on this if anyone is in the know)
The Sandline Inquiry is floating about (PNGscape News Board) but who really cares anyway...i mean Chan had a convincing win.
Again the same old same old with PNG and corruption. "We ignore it/accept is as part of PNG and life (bulk of the population)/blame anyone but the people responsible, preferably the Aussies- not just for their part of it but for the entirety of the problem/get in amongst it/talk, talk and talk about it some more- well hey look who’s talking (I try)/ try to fight it but fail (cast your mind to UPNG student demonstrations 2001)/ try and keep on trying and trying (NGOs)…what a choice eh."
Independence is around the corner and I think it is about time that PNG and PNGeans made a commitment to themselves and to their country to care even when it seems hopeless, even when it seems that there is really no point. To send a message out there to all those at the top that someone out there is watching them and WILL hold them accountable for their actions even if holding them accountable amounts to very little.
The most effective way to change the whole culture of corruption in PNG is to work from the top down. Ideology is a solution that can only be successful if once the incubated are out in the real world, their society emphasis and maintains the values they have been instilled with. I can only hope that no one will let the Moti issue die until a final and just resolution is reached. Let's make this the symbolic case that indicates a change in the tide for PNG and its attitude towards corruption. Keep it alive and make it right.
It's 31 years since Papua New Guinea got independence.
Up until today, nothing much has been achieved. I still eat kaukau and drink cold water from the bamboo.
I walked many miles to catch the next donkey to get into town. While in town, intimidated by street boys and robbed of my only K5 meant for a packet of rice and a can of fish.
On my way back home, gun wielding criminals threatened and robbed me of my only clothes.
At home my wife is in labour.
No nearby aid post, we had to transport her on a stretcher miles into the nearby clinic.
Upon arrival told that the medicines were run out or I have to pay a fee up front first. While waiting she dies.
The story goes on. Good leaders of this great nation — When will I see electricity into my kunai house? When will I see a road into my village? When will tribal fighting stop in my village?
It's 30 years since independence and I haven't seen any real development taken place yet.
What I read every day in the news- papers are the stories of corrupt politicians misusing public funds, travelled overseas on regular basis, passed parliament bills to suit their own interests, appoint their own political wantoks to head government offices, deals under the table for exploiting of our resources by foreign companies, etc.
Leaders, whose country are you destroying and whose interests are you serving?
You must know in you heart that you are representing the interests of the country, not yours.
Always do what is right to protect the interests of the country and its people.
If it means to sacrifice your own life, please go to the extreme. You can go to another country for medical treatment if you are sick.
But when you die, your body will never leave the shores of Papua New Guinea to be buried in another country. You can change your face by plastic surgery. You can change your skin colour. You can change your appearance.
You can do anything to your body as long as you don't want to be called a Papua New Guinean or recognised as one. But remember, blood is thicker than water.
Deep in your heart you will still know that you are a Papua New Guinean by birth. Leaders of this beloved country of Papua New Guinea, I'll die rather than live to see you destroy our beautiful country.
– Lucas Kiap
UNITECH, Lae
On the side: And again the Post is caught out with its unsubstantiated reports. As I thought. It seriously needs to lift its game, PNGeans are again driven into a tight corner, here where they have no choice but to 'support' The National while its owners plunder our forests in the background.
The Sandline Inquiry is floating about (PNGscape News Board) but who really cares anyway...i mean Chan had a convincing win.
Again the same old same old with PNG and corruption. "We ignore it/accept is as part of PNG and life (bulk of the population)/blame anyone but the people responsible, preferably the Aussies- not just for their part of it but for the entirety of the problem/get in amongst it/talk, talk and talk about it some more- well hey look who’s talking (I try)/ try to fight it but fail (cast your mind to UPNG student demonstrations 2001)/ try and keep on trying and trying (NGOs)…what a choice eh."
Independence is around the corner and I think it is about time that PNG and PNGeans made a commitment to themselves and to their country to care even when it seems hopeless, even when it seems that there is really no point. To send a message out there to all those at the top that someone out there is watching them and WILL hold them accountable for their actions even if holding them accountable amounts to very little.
The most effective way to change the whole culture of corruption in PNG is to work from the top down. Ideology is a solution that can only be successful if once the incubated are out in the real world, their society emphasis and maintains the values they have been instilled with. I can only hope that no one will let the Moti issue die until a final and just resolution is reached. Let's make this the symbolic case that indicates a change in the tide for PNG and its attitude towards corruption. Keep it alive and make it right.
It's 31 years since Papua New Guinea got independence.
Up until today, nothing much has been achieved. I still eat kaukau and drink cold water from the bamboo.
I walked many miles to catch the next donkey to get into town. While in town, intimidated by street boys and robbed of my only K5 meant for a packet of rice and a can of fish.
On my way back home, gun wielding criminals threatened and robbed me of my only clothes.
At home my wife is in labour.
No nearby aid post, we had to transport her on a stretcher miles into the nearby clinic.
Upon arrival told that the medicines were run out or I have to pay a fee up front first. While waiting she dies.
The story goes on. Good leaders of this great nation — When will I see electricity into my kunai house? When will I see a road into my village? When will tribal fighting stop in my village?
It's 30 years since independence and I haven't seen any real development taken place yet.
What I read every day in the news- papers are the stories of corrupt politicians misusing public funds, travelled overseas on regular basis, passed parliament bills to suit their own interests, appoint their own political wantoks to head government offices, deals under the table for exploiting of our resources by foreign companies, etc.
Leaders, whose country are you destroying and whose interests are you serving?
You must know in you heart that you are representing the interests of the country, not yours.
Always do what is right to protect the interests of the country and its people.
If it means to sacrifice your own life, please go to the extreme. You can go to another country for medical treatment if you are sick.
But when you die, your body will never leave the shores of Papua New Guinea to be buried in another country. You can change your face by plastic surgery. You can change your skin colour. You can change your appearance.
You can do anything to your body as long as you don't want to be called a Papua New Guinean or recognised as one. But remember, blood is thicker than water.
Deep in your heart you will still know that you are a Papua New Guinean by birth. Leaders of this beloved country of Papua New Guinea, I'll die rather than live to see you destroy our beautiful country.
– Lucas Kiap
UNITECH, Lae
On the side: And again the Post is caught out with its unsubstantiated reports. As I thought. It seriously needs to lift its game, PNGeans are again driven into a tight corner, here where they have no choice but to 'support' The National while its owners plunder our forests in the background.
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