More support for new admin

 SUMKAR MP Ken Fairweather wants to see the complete overhaul of the Madang provincial government.

Fairweather, who was briefly in the province last week, said his call in Parliament for a complete overhaul of the provincial administration was due to his disappointment with the attitude of its public servants.

He said two areas being neglected were education and agriculture.

He said cocoa and copra pests were destroying food trees, the people’s main source of income. 

“But there was not one officer was seen working to fix the problem,” he said.

He also claimed that provincial administration had failed to fund any campaign to eradicate the diseases.

Fairweather said Madang needed to progress on agriculture and called on the director to get off his chair and do some work.

He scientists from Port Moresby and the industry were in the province doing the work that the provincial officers should be doing.

He said no funding had been given by the provincial government for agriculture extension work on cocoa and copra in his electorate. 

He was forced to spend DSIP and discretionary funds on it.

Fairweather predicted that cocoa and copra would be wiped out in the next four to five years if nothing was done now to fix the diseases.