Wanting to be more than a millionaire

SOME politicians and top bureaucrats in PNG are playing the “Who wants to be more than a millionaire” game.
They pretend to do something big for the country when, in fact, more is going into their own pockets and less for the development agendas of this country.
PNG has been struggling to come out from the doom of corruption.
The question is: who really has the genuine heart to save this country?
Most politicians, of the past and present, were great pretenders. On the one hand, they preach about running and managing our land of the unexpected. On the other hand, they use our land and its resources to build empires and bask in the riches that come with it.
Any simple villager can testify the gloom and doom that PNG is going through.
Because of who we are as Papua New Guineans, a land of diversified cultures, traditions, languages, behaviors and attitudes, and our firmness and perseverance when it comes to maintaining our nationalism and patriotism, PNG will never become a failed state as many had professed from year-on-end.
Papua New Guinea will continue to survive, but at a greater risk and challenges due to the poor leadership and management of our politicians and bureaucrats.
Like the first missionaries that came with the Bible and laid the foundation for a united island nation called PNG, our politicians must now go back to the days before colonisation and retrace the steps of how the missions interacted with our people, brought them out of their uncivilised and hostile lifestyles and instilled in them respect, honesty and love.
These were the principles of greatness that young politicians today know nothing about. They need to be thought these PNG life lessons, or we will continue to deteriorate and face challenges and hardships.
Enough of those dubious deals and personal gratification. Because, one day, your actions will come back to haunt and bite you, and the feeling will not be good.
Politicians and bureaucrat this day and age have no sympathy for that village man, village woman, village boy and village girl carrying loads from their gardens to the house, day in, day out.
How do they feel when a village boy or a village girl treks through mud and slime, climbs mountains, cross rivers and harsh terrains just to sit in a classroom to learn to read and write? This was what the first early missionaries came and introduced to us. And, we, as a people, took the challenge and cross mountains, rivers and oceans for an education.
Why are our people still carrying on in the same way as it was first introduced in the 1800s?
God chose for us to be who we are today. We cannot deviate from that.
But, yet, we ask: did God also planned that our politicians and bureaucrats will continue to cheat and steal from us?
Did God want the 90 per cent of our rural-based villagers to still continue to live the lives they had when the first missionaries landed with the Bible in hand?
This is no joke. Somewhere, something has to be done properly and honestly by our leaders to put PNG back on track.
To those politicians and bureaucrats: Your sins will reveal the true you, for the wages of sin is death!

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