Allow Papua New Guineans to participate

PRIME Minister James Marape has been calling to take back PNG, but I see more foreign advisors than ever telling him and the National Executive Committee on what they should do.
We have the Australian Federal Police who are chartered with advising the Royal Papua New Guinea Constabulary with law and order issues vetting our individual freedoms under Section 32 of our own constitution.
The state of emergency expired in June and was replaced by a quickly written Pandemic Act, which provides for an extended health emergency, but not only is the AFP advisors controlling the changes the foreigners want to see, they are also enlisting the Defence Force to support in law and order issues.
This is not Australia, and the ‘advisers’ all need to be reeled in by their respective ‘aid agencies’ to remind them of their roles. They are the foreigners and Papua New Guineans are more than capable of making our laws through the elected representatives.
Every department supporting their minister has the structure that PNG wants; it may not be what the old colonial power wanted; they left 45 years ago.
Opposition Leader Belden Namah and his legal counsel may very well be onto something serious, if the Pandemic Act does not allow for call-out of Defence Force or a lockdown restricting our right to freedom under the constitution, then perhaps the Government’s liability for compensation is tremendous.
Australia went through a constitutional crisis in 1975 and now we may be going down that same road thanks to our foreign advisers who get their allowances and then leave us with the debris they have caused.
Marape, please get our own Government employees to the task. If they can’t do it, move them out, we have enough people who can have a serious go without having to resort to post-colonial infiltration.

Manu Marikina, Via email