Set clear policies

THE Marape government took office over four months ago with the promise to take back PNG and make it the richest black nation on earth within 10 years.
Today the Prime Minister is still running around calling on everyone to take back PNG, but the question is, from whom, from where and how are we to take back PNG?
Unless these questions are clearly defined and answered, the Prime Minister will still be running around calling on everyone to take back PNG 10 years from now.
A classic example of blind leading the blind.
Four months on, the Marape Government has yet to provide well-articulated leadership, policies and strategies to ‘take back PNG’.
In contrast, when O’Neill Government took office, it had well-articulated policies and strategies in the form of ‘Alotau Accord’ from day one.
The ‘Alotau Accord’ defined where PNG was and provided the roadmap of where it wanted PNG to go, and strategised on how to get there. They had clear benchmarks against which to measure their progress and performance.
Clearly, such policy directives and strategies are absent in the current Government, and this was the main reason why the Marape Government was unable to show anything for its first 100 days in office.
In the meantime the prime minister stop making meaningless calls and announcements, and provide real leadership, policy direction and action to take back PNG, whatever that may mean.
The country needs to see tangible policies, strategies, decisiveness and actions in the Government. It is absurd for the Government to blame the O’Neill government’s policies for the woes PNG is going through, and yet continue to follow the exact policies and strategies of his Peoples National Congress (PNC) led Government.
The PM should now take control of his ministers and provide the leadership that is unfortunately lacking, if we are to ‘take back PNG’ from who knows where, and make it the ‘richest back nation’ in 10 years.
True leaders earn the trust and confidence of their followers by demonstrating their leadership qualities, foresight and confidence to lead and make things happen in both words and deeds.
PNG now, more than ever, needs competent, intelligent, strong and decisive leadership.
The tendency to blame PNC to cover-up on the Government’s own incompetence should stop.
You came into power because you claimed to have the solutions to take back PNG, so simply implement those solutions to prove and demonstrate your worth to the people of PNG.

Quinn Valantino