Leadership is key factor in every institution, situation

 ALLOW me to express my opinion on  the use of grenades to kill 30 people in Kagua-Erave of Southern Highlands (The National, Nov 13). 

As people say, “Everything falls back on leadership” and it is true in every sense. 

Leaders make or break an institution, a family, an electorate, a province, a nation or a tribe. 

When the  leaders choose to stay away from the people whom he/she  chose  to  lead,  chaos is pretty  inevitable. 

What has happened in Kagua-Erave is a cry for leaders of  the electorate and province to return home to lead their people. 

Some people resort to grenades, arms or tribal fights because their leader does not give them the option to negotiate for peace in the first place. 

As a leader, you must sacrifice your lust for women/men, Port Moresby, fame, fortune, money, alcohol  and  respect  because those things are earned. 

All the people need is the leader’s presence instead of a mere two-hour ground-breaking ceremony of projects that never get started or are incomplete. 

Give your people more of your presence  in  person  even  if  you  get killed. That is the warrant you have signed  to represent your people and even if you do not get the best services like in Port Moresby, that is the sacrifice you must  make  for  your   people. 

So, Papua New Guineans, if you hear youths getting involved in looting, gang rapes, armed hold-ups, roadblocks and tribal fights, it is the sound of man depicting their leaders’ absence. 

Let  me also remind you that if the leader is present and these sounds continue to increase, it reflects the merit of the leader’s appointment. 

Nigel Onge John, Via email