Stop changing Govt frequently

I DO not support Prime Minister James Marape nor do I support former prime minister Peter O’Neill and Opposition Leader Belden Namah.
I do not support their associates but I respect them as politicians and the positions they hold.
I support a government that has the following attributes: a government that doesn’t involve itself or encourages corruption, greed, bribery, nepotism or giving contracts to cronies and associates with hyper-inflated invoices or appointing cronies and associates to important government departments and boards.
I support a government that follows the rule of law.
I support a government that appoints officials based on merit, not tribalism, regionalism or political parties.
The issue of a prime minister making a unilateral decisions and getting the National Executive Council to approve those decisions should stop.
I support a government who despite borrowing billions of kina, ensures those funds impacts our rural areas in terms of services and not urban areas who only make up about three per cent of the population.
I support a government that provides proper audited reports on time, meaning within one to two years after spending public funds on important events such as the Apec Summit. That includes proper audited reports of service improvement programme as well.
With the massive K10 million province and district services improvement programme funds, I notice that only 55 per cent of those funds are properly used with acquittals in order.
The rest are probably misused, mismanaged or in some cases, spent on building MPs’ empires.
It supports a government that takes decisive action on recommendations by parliamentary committees’ investigations and not remain idle.
Millions were spent on commission of inquiries every year with no arrests and convictions.
I understand that not one person, MP, or prime minister is perfect.
They all have their own strengths and weaknesses.
I support a prime minister who can stand up for the 8 million population and not entertain the wishes of politicians and party leaders or multinational companies who want to satisfy their own desires instead of putting the people’s interests first.
Marape came in at a difficult time with the downturn of the economy made worse by the coronavirus pandemic.
He is a protégé of O’Neill and has been in government for 18 months only compared to O’Neill’s eight years.
He can’t perform miracles in 18 months but he seems to be saying and doing the right things so far, except for the recent Niugini Biomed Ltd contract.
Unless the other side can produce evidence of massive corruption or other damning evidence against the Marape-led government and bring it out to the public, let him stay until 2022.
In the meantime, there are checks and balance systems available for politicians to utilise if they feel Marape has gone astray.
I don’t believe in frequent changes of government which creates instability and uncertainty.

Dr Banare Bun
Lae