Fund LLGs to improve infrastructure

PAPUA New Guineans need better roads and bridges to help our economy advance.
I have been reading stories about lack of rural infrastructure developments in particular the people of Morobe’s nine districts, Bulolo, Nawaeb, Kabwum, Finschhafen, Tewai-Siassi, Markham and Huon over the last 20 years.
The cry for better roads have fallen on deaf ears.
The national and provincial annual budgets should target rural development by building roads and bridges to enable our people to move and participate in moving our country forward.
Both daily newspapers publish stories and pictures of bad road conditions in PNG almost every day and one wonders what is happening to all the services improvement programme funds.
One way of improving infrastructure is to direct annual funding of K1million to respective local level governments (LLG) so they can improve their roads and bridges.
This is not about increasing budgets allocations but to cut services improvement programme funds of provinces and districts and giving direct funding to LLGs.
The Government under Prime Minister James Marape should get the parliament to enact a law to enable that to happen as governors and MPs are not working due to political and bureaucratic red tapes.
Any good government in its right mind should ensure that all LLG are connected to the districts first.
This will then be followed by connecting provinces eventually into the nation’s capital.

Samson Napo
Buang LLG
Bulolo