WHILE the people, including NGOs, have a right to voice their concerns in PNG, I question the credibility of the so-called NGO groups calling for the Prime Minister to resign and planning protest marches.
The Prime Minister was elected into office in a democratic process and who are these people to undermine that democratic process of this country and call for his resignation?
I can only conclude these are opportunists trying to capitalise on the issues at hand to collect money from anti-Somare politicians and using the media to publicise themselves.
If it is true that they are sending emails and letters to business houses, institutions and the public service on their planned protest marches, then the police must come down hard on them because they have no right to interfere and disrupt normal business and services and hold the public at ransom.
We have never heard of these NGO groups and their contributions to the community before.
If they have existed, then I challenge them to explain to the public what they have done for the benefit of this country and what alternate plans and policies they have to offer PNG if they’re calling for the PM to resign.
The leaders and their NGO groups simply do not have credibility and they seemed to have popped up in recent weeks or months.
They are simply opportunists and not genuine NGOs.
Genuine NGOs are those that make positive contributions to the community and the lives of the people, not some politically motivated groups that have no history or record of contribution to the growth of this country.
Whether they like it or not, the PM will remain and his Government will govern PNG for the next five years.
For now, these NGOs and their financiers must wait till 2012 to campaign against this NA-led Government.
They are fooling themselves with their current strategies because there are no short-cuts like before.

Freddy Gigmai
Port Moresby