O’Neill needs to leave Air Niugini alone

 PRIME Minister Peter O’Neill is at it again to privatise and sell off the national flag carrier, Air Niugini, to private ownership. 

This  is  the same official who privatised  state  assets  such  as the former PNG Banking Corporation (PNGBC). 

The banking icon was sold-off to private ownership to Bank South Pacific  under the leadership of the late Bill Skate. O’Neill was made the executive chairman who was tasked to  sell PNGBC. Papua New Guineans do not  know whether their bank (PNGBC) was sold at its true commercial value. 

O’Neill is now plannng to sell Air Niugini, PNG’s pride. 

I travel to Australia frequently and when  Air Niugini touches down  on  the tarmacs of Brisbane or Cairns or when it takes off with the bird of paradise regalia on it, I feel a sense of pride, sense of belonging, sense of identity and sense of nationhood. 

Prime minister, you do not add more salt  to the many wounds that you continue to inflict on this nation. 

You inflicted the Ok Tedi Mine problems and there is more to come.  

I am fed up with your transformational and dictatorial leadership style and attitude.  

Please leave the assets of the eight million people alone.

Yapi Akore

SHP