Our people deserve better

AS we read about the lack of medicine in our hospital, the fact remains that some of our towns and cities are without electricity, many of our urban areas don’t have water and our children cannot afford to go to school.
We cannot help but question what our leaders are doing in a time when we should be prosperous.
Despite having some of the richest resources in the world, we continue to see lack of access to basic services by the majority of our people.
We have a land full of gold, copper, gas and more that is the envy of the world.
We have all that could fix many of our problems.
Yet, our people are hungry, sick, uneducated and without employment.
Whose fault is this?
Our prime minister got on a chartered plane only to be sent home after holding video conferences.
Our country has declined to a state that we haven’t seen in decades.
Any Papua New Guinean can see that the cause of all of these issues is our leadership.
Our leaders are failing in their basic duties to ensure our people have basic services to build a successful country.
Our leaders are so focussed on their own wealth and personal success.
We are one of the few countries where the richest are the politicians.
Something isn’t right when this happens.
When there is no medicine in our hospitals and our health workers don’t have personal protective equipment, our Health minister has a new car, boat and a house worth millions of kina. Something is not right and people should be asking questions.
When there is no electricity, nothing is done to improve electricity.
Businesses struggle to survive while the State-owned enterprise minister is regularly before the courts for questionable dealings.
Something is not right.
When the Government talks about stamping out corruption and introduces bills and agencies to do this, the corrupt within our system continue to prosper.
Something is not right.
PNG should be a well educated, healthy, wealthy and successful country.
All we need is to stop allowing our leaders to try to convince us they’re doing a good job and hold every public servant right up to the prime minister to account for their actions.
Papua New Guineans deserve better.

Angry Citizen