Stay out of PNG business

IF you left Papua New Guinea to go live and work overseas and got citizenship, you have no right to criticise the Government or the PNG society as a whole.
You don’t vote, you don’t pay taxes, you contribute nothing to this country.
Let me expand on this.
If you’d rather live in Western countries and experience a better lifestyle. Good on you.
But if you want to be critical of the Government or the PNG society on social media so that your foreign friends can see how messed up your country and people are, you have to have had made an effort to change something first and that constitutes voting or paying taxes.
Governments are voted in by the majority.
People in rural parts of PNG are easily duped when someone flashes a wad of cash in front of them.
As an intellectual, and if you have lived and worked in one of our cities and visit your village on holidays, actively taking part in cultural ceremonies, people will naturally look up to you.
So when you voice your opinion, people will actually listen.
Apart from their respect for you, they’ll think: “This guy is educated, he probably knows something I don’t, plus he can put his money where his mouth is.”
I’m not saying all of them will follow what you say, but some will.
Now imagine if all our intellectuals did that.
For a couple of generations, mentalities will change, not overnight.
The Government isn’t going to solve it.
Who is going to do it?

Phil Kaizerman
PoM