Leader: Namah is wrong

A LLG president in Morobe has dismissed Deputy Prime Minister Belden Namah’s outburst over the Indonesia issue “as childish, without basis and of self-interest”.
Provincial works chairman and Wain-Erap president Charlie Foike said the Prime Minister Peter O’Neill made the correct decision to resolve the matter diplomatically.
However, Namah’s views did not represent the interest of the rural majority who were suffering silently as a result of the two regimes’ political decisions.
Foike said Namah’s view was autocratic and totalitarian to suit his military knowledge, skills and interest.
“Rural roads are deteriorating and covered with shrubs, no bridges to access economic activities while aid posts are covered with karuka and bamboo leaves and no aid post orderlies,” Foike said, adding the government must assist there and talk sense.
“Village birth attendants encounter lots of issues without required equipment and materials trying vigorously to minimize maternal and infant mortality rates so what is all this political crap Namah is talking about.”
Foike said there were diplomatic means on how to resolve such issues and Namah, being a former military officer-cum-political leader, “knows the cards well”.
“Although we need someone to stand up and talk about such issues Namah is abusing diplomatic protocols and procedures.
 “The bulk of rural people never benefit from such politics because all they experience is just lip service, which the government need not to fly high for self interest but get real down on earth into the bushes to feel and deliver services that are rightfully belongs to rural people,” Foike said.
He urge other politicians to be mindful when said they represented and spoke on behalf of the interest of the majority of the citizens.
“Simple villagers live the way they wish without knowing anything from such politicians. Therefore, never try to gain the majority’s support because 36,000 rural Nawaeb people benefited nothing from such sentiments and politicians who try to gain attention and publicity,” Foike said.