2017 the year of change, we must make it happen

The world has been changed by ideas, inventions, struggles, and sacrifices of a few people and not by recycling the same politicians.
Countries are transformed by ideas, and visions of revolutionary thinkers and not by recycling the same politicians for years or by killings pigs, attending funerals, buying coffins, giving cash handouts, buying airfares or bribing voters.
Not everyone has been inventors. Not everyone has been noble. Not everyone has saved the world. Not everyone has been heroes.
Atomic bomb was not a mushroom in the bush found covered with leaves. Aeroplane was not a bird caught flying. Submarine was not a shark caught swimming.
Light bulb was not a star fallen from the sky.
The world has been transformed by the ideas and inventions of a few people and not by recycling the same politicians.
The world has been saved by struggles and sacrifices of a few people who have given up their own lives for others.
Singapore was transformed in 20 years by the vision of one man Lee Kwang Yu from the swamps.
They have no resources like PNG.
But they had a seaport which he saw it that can attract all the ships in the world.
Nobody ever thought Singapore was going to be where it is today.
Now they are one of the most advanced countries in the world but got independence only ten years ahead of us in 1965.
Look at South Korea.
They have been transformed from the rumbles of the Korean War (1950-1953) into one of the digitally sophisticated nations in the world.
Nobody ever thought a poor country like South Korea destroyed beyond repairable by war was going to be transformed within 20 years.
But they did to set an example that no dream is impossible when you have people who are equally determined to make it happen are behind driving it.
Japan was destroyed beyond repairable by massive bombings during the World War II (1939-1945) by the United States.
There was hunger everywhere. Women with no husbands turned to prostitution to look after fatherless children.
Japan was colonised by America after World War II. With no natural resources and active industries, no one ever thought Japan was going to pull out of the rumbles of war, turned it’s economy into the world’s second largest behind the United States and host the 1960 Olympics after 20 years. Japan was transformed within 20 years.
PNG, on the other hand, is rich in natural resources.
Any dream can be possible.
I am not saying we are going to send a rocket to the moon.
But I want our children to grow up knowing that one day they can go to the moon too. Nothing is impossible.
PNG has advanced forward from one economic growth stage to another but is being robbed by incompetent businessmen and recycled politicians who have no idea about running the country but only to enrich themselves.
Vote all recycled politicians out in the 2017 general elections.
These are the same recycled politicians who have been exploiting this rich country for the last 41 years.
We are rich in natural resources yet poor, least livable, highly taxed and most corrupt countries in the because of the same recycled politicians.
2017 is our year to change the course of this country.
We have a choice now whether to continue follow the footsteps of our recycled politicians to destroy this country or forge our own destiny.
The choice is our power to forge a new destiny for this country in 2017.

Lucas Kiap, Via email