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By PAUL MAOLAI
All five Milne Bay MPs are united and have vowed to bring services to
their people.
That was the assurance given by Governor John Luke last week in Alotau.
The MPs created political history for the province and the nation when
all joined the National Alliance-led coalition Government.
Governor Luke led his four colleagues Esa’ala MP and Rural Development
Party leader Moses Maladina, Alotau MP Charles Abel, Samarai-Murua MP
Gordon Wesley and Kiriwina-Goodenough MP Jack Cameron off an Airlines
PNG flight at Gurney Airport, Alotau, last Friday to a reception by the
Morima dancers and the Milne Bay administration.
They were welcomed by provincial administrator Henry Bailasi, division
heads, senior public servants, police and correctional officers.
Mr Luke assured the public servants that they were united and should be
seen as a “company board”, in which he was the board chairman.
“I do not want to run the province as a ‘one-man show’ but as a company
board,” he said.
“We do not want to do politics in Port Moresby but we want to put our
noses into every nook and cranny to find what we can to do for this
place, which is the first thing we will do,” he said.
He said in the next few months, Gurney Airport would open up to receive
international flights.
Mr Luke told the public servants that they would get somewhere if they
looked at him closely, supported him and followed his lead.
He also called on them to cooperate with him to move the province
forward because it had been lagging behind in the last 10 years and “not
had its fair share of the national cake”.
“We have been assured that Milne Bay will get more because of our
support to the Government,” he added.
 
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