Create job opportunities

PAPUA New Guinea has no proper monitoring systems to show how many jobs are created on a quarterly basis in a financial year for our ordinary citizens. And without the full Government’s support of our people to have them heavily engaged in the SME and informal sector, the country can easily get into recession.
This is evident throughout the provinces where the youths are frustrated and getting involved in illegal activities.
They do this to relieve themselves from pressure of being ignored with no support, leadership and control from the authorities.
The feeling of being left out from the more organised and professional activities including formal jobs lead to mass killings and robbery everywhere.
I cannot recall the last time the Government published figures on new jobs being created for a financial year.
The past and present Governments have failed terribly by creating fancy policies on a child’s free education and easy loan schemes that will benefit them (students) for now without monitoring and creating jobs for the thousands who are coming out from our formal education system, who cannot easily find a decent job nowadays.
That applies to most of our university graduates.
Putting more emphases in giving every child a free education and support strategies such as the Tesas and now Help is just one side of the coin.

Sir Pato Kakaraya
Former Wapenamanda Open MP