PM blasts Sir Michael’s regime

Prime Minister Peter O’Neill has lashed out at the Somare regime, saying it has treated the country as if it was a family business for the past nine years.
He told people yesterday in Port Moresby, that the country had remained “unchanged” since independence and goods and services had not reached people in rural areas.
He said politicians and other white collar criminals had stolen millions from the public purse and had bettered their own lives while the people suffered.
O’Neill said at “the end of the tunnel there is a light” referring to his government and its effort to fight corruption.
He said his government had four months left before the issuing of writs on April 27 and would ensure the people’s interests were protected.
He thanked the people through their 75 MPs who elected him as the prime minister saying a family could not run the country.
He said parliament should not come under the influence of a few people and be used as a “rubber stamp”.
O’Neill said since independence, governments had been formed and dissolved in parliament and not on streets or at hotels.