Impact projects must be in rural areas

 I AGREE that our Prime Minister Peter O’Neill is extremely doing well as alluded to by Samson Wena of Kerowagi, Chimbu.  

It is true we need political stability and especially to the Prime Minister’s post with O’Neill at the helm.

There is no guarantee another Prime Minister will continue the good work of O’Neill after the 2017 general elections. 

I agreed and did not dispute the good work of our PM in my previous article. What I argued is the socio-economic benefit outlays of these massive public investment projects mainly curved out in Port Moresby and Lae. 

Since these massive billions are funded by borrowed money that our future generations will pay for, my question is in what ways the majority will benefit since this is their money or are they  going to pay the price and suffer for the actions of today’s greed? 

This is my argument. 

I would have been happy if the K800 million Lae-Nabzab superhighway is used to rebuild and reshape the Lae-Madang-Bogia Highway. 

Likewise, use similar massive borrowed money to build and open up Madang-Simbu highway, Madang-Jiwaka highway via Simbai and Jimi districts. 

Similarly, open up Mendi-Kopiago and Tari to Bosavi highway and Gulf-SHP highway. When we open up the rural outback, we are growing cash economy and putting money into the pockets of the rural masses through massive agricultural engagement and production. 

This is what I mean by cost-benefit-analysis. 

Finally, I disagree and I will always disagree to a government that is hell-bend to developing Port Moresby city for it is a money laundering city as far as I am concerned. 

It is a consumer city on a one-way traffic without any returns to the total net economy. Port Moresby city is the corruption headquarters.

It is a city where the lazy man or a man without even a single coffee tree is made to be an instant millionaire. 

These are the exploits of political and administrative corruption.  

I agree our PM Peter O’Neill is capable of setting the launching pad for national growth but he must do so from outside in from the outback country and not from inside out of Port Moresby.  

It raises a lot of doubts on the genuineness of pumping millions of kina into a city that has no connectivity and relevance to the total net economy of the country.

Yapi Akore

Kagua-Erave, SHP