Bird’s leadership style commended

IN these trying times with Covid-19 affecting the world, we need our Government and lawmakers to make themselves knowledgeable about how the virus will affect us.
Come up with strategic plans to shelter us from a possible disaster or minimise the effects.
I find it very interesting watching East Sepik Governor Allan Bird’s talk in Parliament on Thursday.
Bird highlighted some important points that most MPs and ministers should take seriously.
He talked about the unmanned border and illegal border crossing in West Sepik as well as the movement of vanilla traders and soldiers.
The facts he presented and the efforts his East Sepik administration are doing should be noted.
He was upset by MPs who were moving around with face masks and in lockdown in Port Moresby.
Bird urged them to go back to their districts and assist their people.
The Prime Minister James Marape should demand that each MP go back to their districts and ensure that correct and sufficient information are shared to help their people about the virus.
Governor Bird has visited all the districts.
In that sense, Bird is a pacesetter and all other MPs should learn from that.
He is not waiting for the Government to give him money to do that, he is using the province’s own funds to do it.
That is what we need in our MPs.
We need MPs who will take the initiative to lead to alleviate problems or prepare our people for those that are expected.
Bird has an advantage in addressing health issues.
He was the chairperson of the Wewak General Hospital for years and knows the system to use it to help people prepare themselves better.
To hear that his government is quarantining Moem Barracks soldiers who came back from border duty shows how he values his people.
He should not allow any chance of this virus which is affecting a lot of people in Indonesia to reach his province and spread there.
The Government will do itself and our nation much good by picking Bird’s brain.
We need his ideas and strategies to help prepare ourselves better for this fight. The two-month lockdown by the Government is not the best strategy for PNG.
PNG is not like Italy, the US or Australia.
The majority of our people need to go out to their gardens for food daily.
We should not adopt measures that the developed world is using.
In the developed world, they have banks and their governments have the money to come up with billion-dollar assistance programmes to help them in this time.
We in PNG are not in that same category.
But we should still come up with our own to help our people.
Bird showed himself to be hundred steps ahead regarding strategising to help his people.

PNG Man