Govt failed to handle Covid-19

THE Government has lost the plot on managing the spread in the Covid-19 pandemic.
The respective government authorities failed to put in place measures to combat the Covid-19 pandemic.
They are now introducing vaccinating our citizens without any proper testing programme.
How can you go on injecting people with vaccines without proof of the virus’ severity?
What are the side effects?
The Government should be spending these millions of Covid-19 funds on boosting the capacities of provincial and districts hospitals, clinics in local level governments and aid posts.
For example, Morobe’s nine district hospitals in Menyamya, Bulolo, Huon Gulf, Markham, Lae, Nawab, Finschhafen, Tewai-Siassi and Kabwum, should be upgraded with proper staffing and get the World Health Organisation to help us out with combatting the Covid-19 and other diseases.
Let us not forget the Covid-19 pandemic is not the only disease that can kill.
There are other dangerous diseases already in PNG that can destroy lives as well.
We have been going around in circles without any improvement.
Let us seek God’s wisdom and guidance and ask Him for forgiveness and blessings.
I said that because the Covid-19 pandemic has penetrated the country just years after former prime minister and Ialibu-Pangia MP Peter O’Neill illegally took over the late Grand Chief Sir Michael Thomas Somare’s government.
Sir Michael never handed this country to any political leader in a respectable manner.
And now, he is gone.
Yes, it is true that some of our parliamentarians confessed and apologised to the Somare family in front of our founding father’s casket but that was not good enough.
They should have apologised to him when he was alive.
Prime Minister James Marape must also apologise to us – many former MPs – for not keeping his promise to bringing us to Port Moresby to witness Sir Michael’s funeral.
My wife and I spent our own money to look after many elderly people who came to our family home to show respect to our founding father and listening to the live broadcast of his funeral from start to finish.
The 2017-2022 parliamentary term has been in total confusion that has resulted in court battles and political fights between the Government and the Opposition.
Our political leaders have lost their way.

Samson C Napo,
Former Bulolo MP (1992-2002 )