Call to sack minister

ENVIRONMENT, Conservation & Climate Change Minister Wera Mori should be sacked for his continuous blatant ignorance and oversight of established government protocols and administrative channels.
When he was the Commerce & Industry Minister under the O’Neill regime, he created controversy by his personal involvement to bypass the Finance and Treasury departments and went ahead to personally deliver K10 million earmarked as compensation to the Koiari landowners for Port Moresby’s water supply system.
He colluded with a wrong group of people claiming to be the rightful beneficiaries of the money and paid them.
The rightful landowners were up in arms and openly protested at the Manasupe Haus and Vulupindi Haus where the prime minister’s office and Finance Department are respectively located.
While Mori was still at Commerce & Industry, he visited Madang without consulting the Madang provincial government to try to push ahead with the pacific marine industrial zone (PMIZ), even ignoring the landowners’ concerns over environmental damages to be caused by the proposed development.
Madang Governor Peter Yama criticised him for not consulting his provincial government and informing them of his visit to the province.
Mori again ill-advised the Government to cover up the Ramu nickel mine spillage.
The Madang government proved Mori wrong when an independent study carried out by a Swiss scientist found substantial evidence of toxic waste existing in marine life along the Basamuk Bay.
The same minister created another controversy just recently by inviting a Chinese billionaire to secretly fly into the country in his private jet with a small delegation in the pretext of donating face masks to help PNG in the fight against the Covid-19.
How can the billionaire take a long, expensive and risky flight with no economic sense to PNG just to donate some face masks?
Just this year, Mori visited the Kundiawa-Gembogl district three times in less than six months for some tree-planting exercise.
He recently visited Mt. Wilhelm to launch a road upgrade project funded by the Conservation Environment Protection Authority (Cepa).
The minister and his Cepa bureaucrats in Waigani made these visits without informing the local Kundiawa-Gembogl MP William Gogl Onglo.
Mori did not inform the Kundiawa-Gembogl development authority about his visit with respect to the normal established government protocol and service delivery mechanism.
How can districts and provinces implement their five-year development plans when such a minister and his bureaucrats ignore established government processes?
Politicians and senior bureaucrats cannot use donor and development funds to do early campaigns for the 2022 elections in the pretext of carrying out Government initiatives.
This is an insult to our development partners and tax payers of this country.
The minister has created enough controversy by putting the Government in bad light.
We can no longer trust and respect this minister and his long line of controversies.
Aren’t there any other capable MPs to take over his portfolio?

F. Gigs
Waigani