Abolish unnecessary departments

Letters

IF I am the prime minister, I would abolish some departments that are really not worth keeping.
The Department of Community Development, Religion and Youth would be the first to go.
Second would be the National Cultural Commission while others that will follow suit to save millions of Kina through salaries and remuneration packages.
Also, Department of National Planning and Monitoring, Department of Information and Communications Technology and the Department of Higher Education (DHERST) and others. PNG is a tiny country that does not really need a department or office comprising hundreds of public servants but just a few managing its core functions.
For the office of Community Development, Religion and Youth we can have a small office with less than 10 staff to oversee and rollout programmes.
Likewise for the office of Culture and Tourism.
National Planning and Monitoring is another office not really necessary to keep as Treasury and Finance would look into this area.
Department of Information and Communication, should have a small office with less than 10 staff.
Money that would have spent on worthwhile projects in the country gone to waste – paying salaries and renumeration packages to so-called public servants.
We have the Defence Department, Immigration and Foreign Affairs Department there that can look into national security and border surveillance.
DHERST should be abolished and let only the Education Department exist.
The country needs the money to build more schools, aid posts, roads, to connect power, build railways, airstrips and to undertake other development for the livelihood of its citizens than paying salaries and remuneration packages to thousands of public servants.
It is a clear waste of funds.

Binz lce
Let’s save millions