Put vision into action

LIKE what critics said of Australian Prime Minister Malcom Turnbull in the Brisbane Sunday Mail when he fell from grace, ‘Malcolm had a plan to become prime minister but no plan to be prime minister,’ the same can be said of Prime Minister James Marape, perhaps in a stronger overtone.
It’s about time we put things straight as they are rather keeping them down low and hush-hush the truth.
Marape’s five months in office is marked with outright complacency and indecisiveness.
This doesn’t mean Marape is utterly incompetent but he mustn’t continue to rest on the laurel of his so-called DNA based manifesto and span inappropriate dreams hoping the prevailing conditions to somehow disappear.
Credible people had moved over to the government and the country is expecting more than the disjoint, piecemeal and Band-Aid approach the Marape Government is now synonymous with.
In having the cadre and experience of people such as Sir Mekere Morauta, PNG is expecting reforms and structural adjustments as the first step towards meaningful change.
Unfortunately that is not happening and is neither reflected in the Supplementary Budget nor in any of Marape’s plans including his manifesto.
Unless, of course, the government is intending to clone everyone with the Marape DNA to think like him.
Maybe that could be in the pipeline but right now the country wants to see results firsthand from all the sweet talks to fight corruption, raise millionaires and make PNG a developed nation in ten years.
Among other things falling apart, law and order is deteriorating.
This is owing to the constant change in leadership and procrastination – the thief of time – in the Police Department.
A policeman was recently shot dead while on duty in Tari, Hela.
And a little while ago grotesque images of mutilated bodies of women and children viciously slaughtered as in a genocide in that very part of world goes on high-definition – colour enhanced – modern media right across the globe.
Not to mention that most of these heinous crimes are happening in Marape and the Police Minister Bryan Kramer’s own electorates.
Now, this is not to blame anyone as there many contributing factors, but the Police Minister should equally shoulder some of the blame for driving instability in the police force.
He can easily wriggle off the hook and pass the blame on others as typical of him.
But he doesn’t know that he is destroying the Marape Government which he never had hand in forming. When pressured to make the high profile arrests on allegations he had been preaching – UBS among others – Kramer has nothing to show as he has no solid evidence because he was lying all along.
A clumsy and ham-fisted attempt on former PM Peter O’Neill few days ago almost divided the police force and consequently egged his political opponent to sought smarter defensive strategies.
If gross negligence and incompetency is bringing disrepute to the police and the Marape Government then Kramer is the one to be tarred and feathered.

Sakale Nenge, Lower Lai