Put ward development committees on payroll

WITH East New Britain being the model province in Papua New Guinea, every new concept that are being developed or adopted from the first-world nations are being trialled there.
As the new concept of “bottom-up planning” is implemented in the province, people will see services reaching them.
Bottom-up planning is simply a strategy structured for development to start at the ward level then to the local level government and all the way up to the national government.
This means district services improvement programme funds from the Government would be diverted directly to the wards.
The ward member and his ward development committee will the use this funds for project implementation in their wards.
However, ever since Independence, ward development committees, excluding their ward member, had been sweating their guts without pay in order to change their respective wards.
For 45 donkey years, they had been working in silence with humility and perseverance without uttering a single word at the Government to appreciate their work.
Ward development committees never complained about getting paid.
They continue to serve the people with their hearts.
Please do something and include ward development committees in the Government payroll.
This will motivate them to do even better.

Hillary Likius,
Rabaul