Opposition confident it can topple government

THE Opposition is confident a motion to facilitate a vote of no-confidence in the Government in February will be successful – even if they do not have the numbers now.
Deputy Opposition Leader and South Bougainville MP Timothy Masiu said they were not happy with how the Government was running the country.
Addressing a guns summit in Siwai district last week, he accused the Government of “mishandling the Bougainville issue” and “leaving Bougainville out of the 2019 national budget, except for the K20 million allocated to the Bougainville Referendum Commission”.
“Besides, the Apec meeting was a total failure,” he said. “The Opposition is not happy and we will move a vote of no-confidence in the government. We know we only have 25 members but we believe that with God, everything is possible. We believe we can still make it.”
The Siwai district gun summit is one of a series of district meetings run by the Autonomous Bougainville Government parliamentary service in collaboration with the United Nations field office in Buka to ensure that the people were ready for the referendum and that it was weapons-free.
Masiu told his people he wanted Bougainville to move away from PNG.
“Let’s not make any more mistakes. We must leave PNG and become an independent sovereign nation of our own. I appeal to all ex-combatants to surrender their weapons and show PNG we can do it.”
He said PNG had benefited from Bougainville through the Panguna mine but failed to give back to Bougainville what it deserved.