People taken for ride on grand LCA plan

 THE Lae City Authority initiative was not about the people of Lae city, Morobe or even the Ahi people. 

It was really about who gets paid what and how much that payment coincided with their efforts in making the people of Lae and Morobe swallow the LCA bait. 

It was all about a remuneration package for our so-called leaders.

No wonder Lae MP Loujaya Kouza stepped down and became quiet after complaining about her undelivered pay cheque.    

The people of Lae and Morobe were taken for a “blah blah blah” ride. 

We were promised of a clear representation in the authority, a clear recognition in the authority’s establishment and a clearly drawn line on our local Morobe interests as traditional landowners of Lae. 

It was sold to us like a walk in the park and we swallowed the full package without a hiccup. 

Then suddenly our dearest leader and her associates decided to come clear with the “facts” and declare on the record about their fallout with their co-schemers on the whole LCA issue. 

Kouza’s blunt declaration of abandoning her the LCA shows in full colour both her own stand as a Ahi leader and as a Morobean.  

How on earth can you abandon us for a mere pay check when you were the one who was enticing us to jump onto the LCA bandwagon? 

It shows clearly that everything you said in the lead up to the LCA’s commissioning were just selling points. 

As an Ahi leader, you knew the political implications of the scheme, yet you sold your own people to people with greater interests in Lae City.  

Moreover, as a Morobean leader, how could you allow that to happen? You are a mandated political leader, appointed to represent and protect our social, economic and political interests. 

And now you have decided to go back into silence and watch it all unfold as if it has nothing to do with you. 

Come on Kouza, be realistic. While you lament about that, the city’s scavenging rats and pick-pocketing scumbags have crept out from hiding and have taken over Eriku, Lae main market and town bus stop.

Was it part of the LCA deliverance package to prevent these unwanted pests from returning?   

Leader knows best, as they say.   

Gilinde Kitoria

Ahi Nga’pali, Lae