Leaders are out of touch

OUR forefathers who wrote our Constitution are turning in their graves over the conduct of our current crop of national leaders, most of all the Prime Minister of late.
If they could come back, I’m sure they’d have something to say.
For all the pompous flair that accompanies our MPs’ grand declarations of being anti-corruption champions none of that was apparent in the election of the Prime Minister on Tuesday.
It was as if the well-published election rigging in their Prime Ministerial candidate’s electorate was not worth two bobs of consideration.
It was as if the “free and fair” election enshrined in our constitution was mere fable, a bed time story for their well-off children.
The next time the likes of Kramer, Juffa, Bird, Temu and co stand up on the floor of the Parliament to grandstand about fighting corruption and protecting our Constitution, Papua New Guineans should shut their ears.
If they felt O’Neill was corrupt, then why not put up someone among them to be the PM.
Anyone but the guys running this country to the ground.
These politicians I have named above are mostly mixed-race just like Peter O’Neill.
But none of them grew up shirtless and shoeless in the village.
They lack the experience and connection that O’Neill has with the local villager.
They speak fluent accent-less English which betrays their lack of connection to that often neglected villager.
O’Neill’s English is heavily accented with his mother tongue.
These group of politicians know O’Neill is head and shoulders above any PM candidate.
He is a tall tree in the forest.
He puts them to shame with his non-compromising demand for perfect performance.
It’s that shame that fires up their hatred and jealousy for O’Neill.
That jealousy and hatred is so real and so overwhelming they revile him.
They will do anything to destroy O’Neill, even to the extent of abandoning the Constitution they reverently and audaciously declare to protect in public.
And they succeeded in destroying O’Neill on Tuesday, albeit only temporarily, I guarantee them. And in doing so these very “champions” shred the constitution to pieces.
O’Neill’s dream to make PNG a Pacific powerhouse will be shelved for now but O’Neill won’t fade away from the national stage.
You can take the boy away from the village but you can’t take the village out of him.
He will rise again to deliver to that villager he has that fond and nostalgic connection to.

Pole Hali
Tokorara
NCD