Funding and accountability

WE should stop talking about who is in the government and who is in the opposition bench.
Our focus should be about accountability and the delivery of goods and services.
This Parliament is a record-breaking one in terms of the amount of funds received under the district and provincial support improvement (DPSI and PSIP) grants by the respective MPs in all the electorates and provinces in Papua New Guinea. Individual open-seat MPs received K10 million per year and the governors received K5 million per district per year.
Therefore, in one year 89 districts will receive a total of K890 million in DSIP grants and 21 provinces will receive K450 million PSIP grants.
Thus, in this Parliament, our MPs will use more than K5 billion in developmental grants in districts and provinces.
This K5 billion is not included in sectoral funding to departments and agencies for things like education, health and law and order.
We therefore ask you to take stock of the developments taking place in terms of social advancement and economic prosperity.
In Morobe alone, we received a total of K225 million PSIP grants through the governor and K450 million in DSIP grants to the nine districts or K50 million per district.
Thus, in total Morobe alone received K675 million in developmental grants.
So where is the corruption? The corruption is at your respective districts and provinces; you should check with your MPs and the public servants working at your district development authorities (DDAs) and provincial governments.
These are the people responsible for delivering goods and services to you.  The people and the leaders of Papua New Guinea should give credit to Prime Minister Peter O’Neill for the courage and bold actions he has taken to develop PNG and ensure there are enough funds available for development.
If there is mismanagement of funds, then ask your MPs and governors for they are responsible for the DSIP and PSIP grants.

Kumul blong Morobe