Source: yutok, Post Courier: Friday October 7, 2011
MEMBERS of Parliament in the 1970s and 80s worked very hard as soon as they entered Parliament.
They left behind them a lot of landmarks in the history of the development of Papua New Guinea after independence. There were airstrips, wharves, roads, demonstration farms, shipping, export of agricultural products, even the export of goods, and clean drinking water.
After the 1990s, there was hardly any major development at all, with the exception of one or two. Since then wharves have broken down, shipping to remote islands are non-existent, airstrips have been turned again into secondary forests, and road conditions worsened. Intending candidates for the coming general election are talking about so many physical developments they want to carry out if they are elected. Where will you get the money from for these kinds of promises? This is a genuine question because many of you have gone without jobs in the past few years and this is not a good leadership. If you cannot make a decent living, how can you want to enter Parliament? Just to get fat salaries to make ends meet?
Frank Goi, Auckland, NZ
They left behind them a lot of landmarks in the history of the development of Papua New Guinea after independence. There were airstrips, wharves, roads, demonstration farms, shipping, export of agricultural products, even the export of goods, and clean drinking water.
After the 1990s, there was hardly any major development at all, with the exception of one or two. Since then wharves have broken down, shipping to remote islands are non-existent, airstrips have been turned again into secondary forests, and road conditions worsened. Intending candidates for the coming general election are talking about so many physical developments they want to carry out if they are elected. Where will you get the money from for these kinds of promises? This is a genuine question because many of you have gone without jobs in the past few years and this is not a good leadership. If you cannot make a decent living, how can you want to enter Parliament? Just to get fat salaries to make ends meet?
Frank Goi, Auckland, NZ
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