Where is PNG now?

[Elizah Mapun]

Politicians have been storming to save Paua New Guinea from a big drain and it really impressed me when I read about it in our daily papers (National & Post Courier). Where is PNG now? Was it saved?

Confused!!!????

[Rips Amesii]

Bada,
Thanks for that very intellectual question...Anyway,as a PNGean, you already know where PNG is now...But I just wanna express where PNG is right now...When you read our dailies, they will report almost everything on how our country is incuring aids from overseas donors to help us cope with some of the problems we are encountering.It sounds good when we seek assistance from donors to help us with problems like tsunamy,earthquake and so on but it is not good when we seek assistance to cope with problems created by men like the current HIV/AIDS epidemic and more...The point is,if we can still depend on other countries in solving minor problems a country can solve by itself, then we are still way behind.
I hope you and I come from a village where our umbilical cords are shed and just think back to our people how they are living..Some of them, it takes months to afford even a bar of klina soap just to wash their over-used torn clothes and to wash their black charcoal type bodies.Also some of our brothers and sisters in the settlements of the major towns in the country never know what it means by breakfast and lunch and sometimes even dinner, too..The little they have for dinner whether it may be a packet of rice or flower balls is gained just by bag snathcing,pickpocketing and even stealling in the shops...What do these mean???? I am sorry to say this but PNG is still the same as other African countries .....It IS THE LEAST DEVELOPING COUNTRY IN THE WORLD.........But oneday,God will save PNG...

[Kaiam Bees]

Patriots,
You have discussed an important point here. Yes, we cannot deny that. After 34 years of Independence PNG has gone nowhere in terms of economical, social, political etc...development. All the political parties who have ruled this nation since independence did not have any major impacts in the lives of the people. They have failed this nation severely. Almost two-thirds of the people are still living in extreme poverty in the rural areas around PNG exposing to zero basic and infrastructure services.
Since 1975, the silent majority of poor Papua New Guineans, watched in total awe and disgust that the governments and their partners in government used political parliamentary majority and privilege to blatantly and shamelessly taking the law onto themselves. Many of them have been reported to have misappropriated and abused the public funds but so far we couldn't see them being prosecuted or jailed. This attitude of the leaders has attacked the integrity of the constitutional law of this nation. They take the law as their family regulations.
In such environment the nation will never reach anywhere. For the nation to prosper we need to have transparency in everything that we do. There won't be a miracle from heavens.

Mioks Voice!