Developing Port Moresby

THE Government’s focus now is being concentrated only on developing Port Moresby.
Papua New Guineans have witnessed Port Moresby changing overnight with huge projects such as sports stadiums, flyovers, bridges, huge buildings, etc.
Most of our leaders will say, “Port Moresby is the eye and gateway to Papua New Guinea”.
Yes correct, we understand that.
But the question is: Is Port Moresby the entire Papua New Guinea?
Is Port Moresby the only place contributing to the Government purse?
Why are we doing that while our rural populace is still struggling to see, feel and access basic Government services?
Government service delivery mechanism still has huge gaps to patch.
One example: Our provincial governors received provincial services improvement programme (PSIP) grants and all MPs received district services improvement programme (DSIP) grants.
Where is the LLG (LLGSIP) component for all our elected presidents?
Our rural population does not see any changes because the Government does not give direct funding to our local level governments.

Hanam Bill Sandu
Concerned Citizen
Lae