No need to extend SOE

BASED on all public information available since the Covid-19 threat, there is no reason to extend the state of emergency (SOE).
The land, sea and air borders should be conducted within the existing protocols of 14 days quarantine to monitor entry of persons from hotspot areas.
The proposed law aimed to manage any medical emergency threat within and cross borders should be looked at properly to decide if there is a need to enact a law to enforce health and hygiene protocols.
Or whether it may infringe into the rights and freedom of citizens.
Importantly, who is to be vested the authority to administer and determine when to invoke the provisions?
The critical question is whether the emergency powers to act during crises such as disasters, wars and pandemic be vested through the Parliament, National Executive Council or the prime minister.
The current laws place emergency powers through parliament is sensible.
In fact PNG has sitting duck laws, systems and processes to respond to any form of national emergency since independence.
That is why in the presidential system you have the president as the commander in chief for such national emergencies.

LG,
Food for thought