Redirect course

AFRICA was one continent. European colonial powers segregated and divided Africa into colonial rule by the European Empires.
This was for the purpose of wealth harvest.
Then, the colonisers gave them independence after maximum harvest had been done and diverted but they still kept the economic powers to themselves by design by way of adapting the colonisers constitution into continental countries in Africa.
Africa is realising this. Is it late? It is a lesson to be corrected.
Since PNG got its independence in 1975, economic powers were kept by the colonial mining giants just as what happened in Africa.
The mining and petroleum laws in PNG are Anglo-Saxon British derived laws. The colonial administrators also helped to give birth to our constitution including laws and practices.
We can’t say, we wrote our constitution alone. The colonisers extracted Africa. They extracted PNG. They extracted places on earth they explored and settled.
Bougainville crises in 1988 is a result of not giving the equal share to the landowners.
Our resource laws and some of the laws we have acquired during independence have colonial imprints on it and these laws urgently need a relook and changes made to restore resource owners (including landowners) confidence.
The result is the Bougainville independence referendum that got the entire country into disbelief, shock and sad is a result of this endued suffering.
PNG needs rethinking, re-planning and refocusing, and it should do it quickly.
The colonisers and the independent state of PNG should know this, when the entire planet’s people were hunters and gatherers, people of PNG were first on the planet to go into a systemic civilisation aided by agriculture.
They owned the land and resources on it and under it.
Colonisers were shocked to realise how complex and systemic we were.
While we appreciate colonialism and how far we have come, our future progress depends on how we shape ourselves going forward.
Human life has a ten-year cycle, and a nation evolves itself every 40 years.
We have gone past our first 40 years.
PNG should redirect its course.
Too much lessons have learnt and we should not ignore them.
We are one nation, one people and country in a colourful complexity we have been, we are and will be.
The Marape-Steven Government gives hope to Papua New Guinea with the #TakeBackPNG# slogan, and with the phase; ‘to make PNG the Richest Black Nation’.
We have this comfort now.

Dr. James Naipao
National President
National Doctors Association