Migration dilemma

PEOPLE move freely in the country. Highlanders travel to the coast, the coastal people to the highlands under the theme – one nation, one people and one country.
We can be proud of that. People have the freedom to move between provinces.
In doing so, marriages take place, friendship occur and people are united.
At the other side of the coin, migration takes place.
Young people, who have the energy to cultivate the land for agriculture are migrating into towns and cities.
They adopt into a new style of living.
Today, apart from those employed by the Government or the private enterprises, gambling is making people become lazy.
They end up committing crime while young girls move around the streets at night looking for luck.
Some young elites stay at rural communities and cultivate land for fresh produce that does not work out. Reason being there are not enough customers in the villages and communities to sell their produce.
A compounding factor is the bad road conditions.
These are some factors that contribute to the rural-urban drift, creating a lot of law and order issues in towns and cities today.
The Government should continue from where the O’Neill government had left.
Focus on infrastructure developments – roads, bridges, schools and aid posts, the SME enterprises, etc.
Why is the Marape-Steven Government wasting a lot of time in Waigani?
Do you have any word to be delivered to the people of this nation?
Maybe O’Neill’s shoes could be bigger than your toes.

Mark Talipa
Lae