PEC urged to appoint qualified people

By ELLEN TIAMU
PEOPLE from the Fisika area, Morobe province, are calling on the provincial administrator and provincial executive committee to select qualified people as district administrators.
Fisika covers Finschhafen, Siassi and Kabwum.
A councillor in the Kote LLG in Finschhafen said district administrators appointed  to the area in the past 15 years had been former aid post orderlies and “didimans” and did not have the qualification  to become administrators.
Ward 1 councillor Barry Sabe said the Fisika area had become a dumping ground for ‘derelict’ public servants and the districts had been the poorer for that.
Sabe said the provincial executive committee was considering changing managers at the district level and should select people with public service administrative training or better qualified people who could bring changes to district and ward levels.
A community leader from the Siassi LLG, James Baige supported Sabe’s comments, saying Siassi Island faced the same dilemma.
“Politicians are making political appointments to the districts and people in the rural areas are the real losers as a result of this,” he said.
“They (PEC) make appointments and the managers go there and don’t perform.”
Baige said it seemed people were appointed and sent to the districts to “have a field day with most spending much of their time in Lae anyway”.
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