Saonu praised for challenging government

MOROBE Governor Ginson Saonu is to be commended for standing up for his people and their resource.
He is rightly challenging the Government of the day not to push people around, and listen to them.
When will the Government learn its lesson?
Hasn’t it learnt from the Bougainville Copper Ltd?
Resource owners have to be consulted from the beginning to actual extraction of resources, whether it be minerals, oil/gas or logging.
Saonu questioned Prime Minister Peter O’Neill over this in Parliament.
O’Neill assured the governor that it would be done in due course but nothing eventuated.
After the mining consultation meeting in Australia, the governor was forced to sign MoUs which he was not party to from the beginning.
How naive is that?
If someone wants to plant a coffee tree on my plot of land, he has to consult me first because without consultation, I as the landlord have a right to uproot the coffee tree.
I worked in a mining field and noticed landowners getting bones while the developer and the Government got the meat. Landowners didn’t get a good deal.
It’s about time every MP, every governor put his or her people’s interest first like the governor for Morobe is doing.
Thumbs up Governor Ginson Saonu.
Fight the good battle for the right of your people.

Peter