Mandates not taken seriously

A MANDATE is life itself.
Upon birth, mandate is the inherent right of governing oneself and wholly.
During elections we give this right to someone else to govern us, which is representative democracy.
In exchange, the representative should provide basic goods and services to enhance human living instead of suppressing it.
In PNG, it is the direct opposite.
For 45 years, our mandates have always been abused for personal glory of the representative than public good and enhancement of those tasked with it.
Worse still, this metamorphic thing ‘state’ came from nowhere on Sept 16, 1975, and stole all and every right from us.
The State owns everything today and vulnerable to exploiting our properties and rights further to aliens.
Take Back PNG is just a big fat mantra and political rhetoric if we continue to be a rhetoric ourselves, greatest ignorance and lack grave knowledge of what lies beneath the depth of a mandate.
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As Papua New Guinea prepares pathway for Bougainville’s independence in 2022 onwards, mainland PNG should also embrace for a new future.
We start with two questions that should included in the ballots of 2022 national general elections:

• SHOULD the prime minister be voted by country and not Parliament? and;
• SHOULD the four regions of Southern, New Guinea Islands, Highlands, and Mamose become individual states?

This is our call, our right, our mandate, our democracy which cannot be denied by parliament any longer.
Enough is enough, we have decided to take our mandate back and chart a new beginning for the motherland from thereon.
We will be cursed by our children forever for our inaction today.
All patriots!
Take your votes on these two questions now as we plan ahead for a public forum soon to consolidate the next move.

Cyril Gare, Via email