Govt failed flag designer

SUSAN Karike Huhume should have been treated fairly during her active days.
She should have been given special recognition such as queens award, special pension such as any other loyal citizens of this country.
The time she passed on, the government should claim her body and accorded her with a state funeral.
It is beyond human comprehension the way our government had treated someone special, especially a woman who had meaningfully contributed to this nation and the world.
It was very emotional to read Nanny Huhume’s thoughts on how the government had mistreated his wife.
Very sorry for the way she was treated.
While we are talking about violence against women and mistreatment of our mothers and sisters by menfolk, my opinion is that, our government mostly dominated and managed by males have seen her as a nobody.
This is an insult not only to Susan’s immediate family but all our mothers and sisters.
Nobody has come to realise or think of what to do during that time of her passing. We should regard her as someone special, a woman who contributed on a world stage by designing our national identity, the national flag of the independent State of PNG.
If our state had failed us all and the late Susan’s family, can the authorities build her sculpture at Independence Hill?
This is to ensure every independence flag raising ceremony, we can see that monument while raising the flag in remembrance to our late heroine.

Hanam Bill Sandu,
Lae