Where’s Basil getting the money for trucks?

SAM Basil, Bulolo MP and Deputy Prime Minister is currently flooding the district with trucks.
Basil, who is Trade, Commerce and Industry Minister, is distributing trucks as free Government handouts to villages in wards 5 and 6 in the Mumeng local level government area.
By doing that, he is encouraging free handouts mentality and laziness among our people instead of encouraging self-reliance and hard work.
So where is Basil getting these funds from?
How is he able to do that when other MPs are struggling to find money to deliver essential services to their people in this difficult financial year?
Giving out large numbers of trucks is killing PMV businesses in Bulolo.
Hardworking PMV owners who have secured loans to pay their PMV trucks are now struggling to repay their loans due to a large number of PMVs operating in the district.
As a result, banks and other financial institutions have repossessed some PMVs.
Can Basil bail them out of their debts?
Can he help them keep their businesses?
One of his department’s (Trade, Commerce and Industry) priorities is to encourage and promote local business activities.
It’s a shame that through unwise decisions, he has contradicted his department’s vision causing the downfall of PMV operators in his own electorate.
From experience, PMV businesses don’t last.
It’s a very bad decision to waste limited Government funds on PMVs that will not last.
It would be better to spend these funds on deteriorating Bendumb National Highway in Bulolo, access roads, health aid post and schools and other projects that will benefit a lot of people for years to come.
Distributing gifts to entice them when the national general election is around the corner is what Basil has been doing all these election years.
It is corruption at the highest level.
If he wants to play politics then it would be better to play it on the same level with others.
He should not use his position, money and power to influence people in the pretext of delivering government services.
The people are not stupid as they have been watching things unfolding in Bulolo all these years.
All these free PMVs are for the last 14 years that they have not seen or received any government services.
Come 2022, we will see the real change in Bulolo.

Max Giamiti,
Mumeng