Toroama outlines blueprint

National

THE first 100 days of leadership under President Ishmael Toroama will be focused on six strategies to drive economic empowerment, law and order and other post-referendum controls.
The strategies are:

  • POLITICAL control and formation of the new government;
  • Economic growth and control;
  • Administrative control;
  • Mobilising private sector and civil society;
  • Long term vision and planning; and,
  • International relations.

However, Toroama said any new standard of service delivery should await improvements in the economy.
“Education and health will continue to be offered as normal services, as it is we are generating about 24 per cent of total budget from within Bougainville,” he said.
“The Covid-19 has impacted the world as well as the PNG economy.
“PNG has slashed its budget by K2 billion, so all of this needs to be taken into account as we are planning and implementing the strategies.
“This means setting the house in order. Pre-conditions are necessary to embark on the strategies and they are ones setting the right political leadership, having an innovative leadership of the administration, a long-term Bougainville blueprint and control over the population and territory.
“A long-term Bougainville blueprint captures the entire Bougainville society. And I intend to establish a high-powered planning secretariat made up of highly qualified and competent citizens who will report directly to the president and the executive council.
“So that our people, political and development aspirations are achieved.”
Toroama will announce his cabinet in the coming days.