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Kavo godsend
I FIRST met Havila Kavo on July 23 last year when I was in Gulf
province for the launching of the National Education Week.
After a church service, he came out shook my hands, saying “I am
going to be the governor and if it is God’s will, I will take it
and ensure that every Gulf citizen will benefit from resources,
funding from National Government and any service that is rundown
will be improved and to provide services to the people”.
I thank God that this wonderful person is now the governor.
I am closely following his progress and I am confident he will
achieve his following objectives:
*Improve human resources;
*Strengthening the administrative capacity so that it will
effectively provide service;
*Development of corporate plan and a five-year development plan;
*Improvement of infrastructure and natural resources (with the
aim to set up a refinery in the province for oil and gas); and,
*Bring the elite of Gulf back to work in the province. -Gulf
man, Via email
Society no
longer safe
RAPHAEL Huafolo’s revelation of more guns in the hands of
civilians should be treated seriously. Unfortunately, we have a
sad trend in this country where the committees set up to address
various issues have been inconsistent due to lack of funding and
other related problems. The Guns Committee set up sometime back
to look into guns and other related problems fell victim to lack
of the Government’s commitment to address this and other related
issues. The usage of high-powered guns in tribal fights in the
Highlands region is a real concern to those of us who call it
home. In all parts of this country, the women population is
vulnerable to the threat of guns and living in constant fear of
being robbed and raped. This threat is now being confirmed by
the top brass of the police force. Huafolo’s revelation reflects
the police force’s inability and lack of resources to combat
illegal guns and the problems associated with it. We can only
conclude that society is no longer safe. – Bomai D Witne,
Goroka
Disappointed over
transfer
I WOULD like to express my disappointment over the manner the
Education Secretary handled the situation at Aiyura National
High School. The secretary succumbed to students’ threats by
transferring the principal Mrs T Dingu to Wawin National High.
This is unbecoming of the secretary as the principal did nothing
wrong. – Disappointed, Lae
Avoiding the issues
THE people of Papua New Guinea can see and read that their
Members in the Government are not doing what they preached
during election campaigns. They preached they were God-fearing
leaders who would fight corruption and bring services to the
people. As these were good policies, we voted them in. The
Somare-led Government is now in total control and the Opposition
is powerless. They have the numbers to suppress any issues or
debates. The recent Parliament sittings summed it all: The Moti
affair; mobile phone competition and to revoke ICCC powers of
granting licences; and, the threat to regulate the media
industry. I won’t be surprise to see tactics like adjournment of
Parliament or causing diversions to avoid those issues. –
Rausim corruption, Port Moresby
Law must reach out
I DO not speak on behalf of the Opposition but as a concerned
law-abiding citizen of this great nation. There is no other
issue in recent times that put the image of this country in
jeopardy than the Moti affair. If the PM is innocent as he
strongly claims (“No crime committed”, Oct 4), then relevant law
enforcing agencies must do the necessary to bring the culprits
to justice. – Jay J. Marambo, Port Moresby
Unitech in disarray
I AM disappointed with the manner the Unitech administration is
running the institution. As a student, I find the state of
services in total disarray – from power to the library, and
everything else in between. Now the administration is increasing
the fees from K1,687 to K2,400 for Hecas students and more than
K5,000 for self sponsored students. The K100 caution fee is also
non-refundable. I call on the Minister of Higher Education to
intervene. Enough is enough. – Disappointed student, Lae
Bros ready to help Pr
Joseph
A LOT of established people contested in the Mendi Open seat.
However, the people decided to give their mandate to a layman to
represent them. Recently, I overheard some people discussing
about election petitions at Boroko and Mendi Open was mentioned.
I was shocked. Shame on you guys! Why don’t you go back to your
villages and start campaigning for 2012? A young man has won
this seat and some people are crying foul. I call on Pr Isaac
Joseph to kick these people out of Mendi-Munhiu district office.
Take some drastic measures and consolidate your authority now or
you never will be able to do that. If you need help, your
‘Tisoso’ brothers are there to help you. – Dr Tone Wakil,
Port Moresby
News is all bad about PNG
EVERYDAY, when I go to the internet to read the news from my
beloved country, all I read are about murder, rape, corruption,
violence, robbery, tribal fights, etc. Who is going fix all
these problems? We have no one but ourselves – the people and
leaders of PNG – to resolve these problems. Where are our
leaders and what are your plans to address these issues? –
Andrew Kambun, Canberra
 
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