WARLORDS IN PNG?
K6 billion in trust funds have been reduced to K600 million kina. Billions have gone out the door without anyone knowing who has taken it, where it has gone?
We have just passed K6 billion budget for 2011 which is a record for PNG’s history. Meanwhile development in POM is booming and consumption of luxuries has increased which is reflected in the SP Brewery expansion project showing the demand for alcohol etc. Luxury cars with a lot of property being purchased in Australia.
Meanwhile, outside of Port Moresby, women are dying in childbirth. People are dying from preventable diseases. Schools with no school books or buildings. Impassable roads. No electricity. No government presence. Development funds used to fund personal bank accounts for politicians and their cronies.
Given the fragmentation of society driven by the geographical features of PNG, it can result in many individual developments where people in an area will get together and contribute and build an aid post. Then they will contribute and build a school. Then they will work together and build a road. As they start organizing themselves, they will find out that they can do much better themselves then to rely on the Government based in Port Moresby.
Then the day of reckoning will come where they will announce that they don’t want any government representatives to come to their area. They will take up arms to defend what they have built. We will end up with warlords controlling individual territories to whom the people owe their allegiance because he can protect them and provide for their basic needs.
We have just passed K6 billion budget for 2011 which is a record for PNG’s history. Meanwhile development in POM is booming and consumption of luxuries has increased which is reflected in the SP Brewery expansion project showing the demand for alcohol etc. Luxury cars with a lot of property being purchased in Australia.
Meanwhile, outside of Port Moresby, women are dying in childbirth. People are dying from preventable diseases. Schools with no school books or buildings. Impassable roads. No electricity. No government presence. Development funds used to fund personal bank accounts for politicians and their cronies.
Given the fragmentation of society driven by the geographical features of PNG, it can result in many individual developments where people in an area will get together and contribute and build an aid post. Then they will contribute and build a school. Then they will work together and build a road. As they start organizing themselves, they will find out that they can do much better themselves then to rely on the Government based in Port Moresby.
Then the day of reckoning will come where they will announce that they don’t want any government representatives to come to their area. They will take up arms to defend what they have built. We will end up with warlords controlling individual territories to whom the people owe their allegiance because he can protect them and provide for their basic needs.
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