Weed out corruption

OVER the past years, national budgets were passed cumulatively amounting to several billions of kina.
On the ground, there are no significant and tangible improvements in development to show for the monies in those budgets.
The country still bellows from the atrocities of hardships everywhere, in all sectors.
These hardships are symptomatic of the prevailing corruption syndrome.
Corruption in Papua New Guinea is endemic and rampant.
It is systemic and systematic.
From the top echelons of politics and bureaucracy, it is well entrenched, thrives and heavily oozes down the corridors of power from the national level to the provincial, district and local level government.
The entire three-tier system of government is irretrievably soaked in it.
The public system is well and truly bogged down in a quagmire of corruption syndrome, where it is informally institutionalised.
Two, or three decades ago, it started small and grew unhindered, until it broke every shackle of virtues and ethics in the public system.
From their ivory towers and comfort zones, the politicians endear delusions of grandeur and speak gibberish, while the masses heave and grapple, often from the politicians’ ill decisions.
Eradicate corruption first, then think and talk about bringing PNG back and making it the richest Christian black nation.
Otherwise, Prime Minister James Marape was simply fooled by the delusions of his myopic mind and spoke on the passing whim of being elected to the highest office.
Any optimism or hope of transforming PNG for the better is nothing, but a tantalising mirage, because PNG is well and truly in a debt trap, heavily dependent on foreign donors and beyond any point of rescue in the massive corruption it is in.
PNG will never change, even long after Marape is dead.
Elections are around he corner and my message to PNG is to vote wisely.
Vote for leaders who are humble, honest and altruistic; leaders who truly hold PNG at heart.
Vote people who display leadership traits of the Biblical Moses, Mao Zedong and Nelson Mandela.
Only leaders of the coterie of these three great leaders would intrinsically have the political will, zeal and aptitude to embrace radical and revolutionary changes to rectify and alleviate PNG from the mess it is in.
Vote for a new breed of leaders with a common aim of breaking a common ground, in creating pathways to bring out island of gold floating in the sea of oil and gas to true prosperity and attain economic independence, that will see us less dependent on foreign loans and aid.
This is true and difficult, but not impossible.
It simple depends on who you and I vote.

Alois Ruarri,
Mikarew, Bogia