Public Servants in the Baiyer-Lumusa district in the Western Highlands province have demanded answers as to why the payment of their wages and salaries has been delayed. Students with high grade point average (GPAs), who missed out on the selection to tertiary education, have also demanded for answers. They raised the questions with Opposition Leader, Don Pomb Polye when he visited the district over the weekend. The people told the Opposition that hardship they face in the rural areas trying to deliver services doubled the hardship faced in the urban areas and the delay in their wages and salaries makes matters worse. The people urged the Opposition team to relay their message to the government and its institutions. Opposition Leader, Don Pomb Polye in response said time has come for the change of guards. Mr Polye said the old guards have to go as the country is facing financial crisis, given the high level of mismanagement by the old guards. He explained that the delay in the payment of wages and salaries faced in the rural areas are signs and symptoms of economy being mismanaged. Polye also acknowledged that there are hardworking public servants in all rural areas who are not well resourced and not looked after by the government. He said the public servants are the agents of development and that they must be properly funded by the government to implement policies and development agendas. He said government has failed to do that and that there are unhappy public servants and even ordinary citizens right across the country. The Opposition Leader said time has come now to change the old guard and to restore the country. Mr Polye said the Opposition team under him has a wide range of strategies to bail the country out of the current financial mess. Mr Polye urged the people to adopt belt tightening measures, given the shortage of cash flow situation facing the country. He said the government is NOT telling the truth about the state of the economy but the people are already feeling the pinch of it. The Opposition Leader, used the occasion to open the Moral Realignment Movement formed within the district. The movement was formed purposely to install morale and discipline among the youths and people within the district. Baiyer-Lumusa like every other districts in the country faces law and order situation and the formation of this movement is aimed at curbing the law and order problems. The movement aims to install morale obligation and discipline among the youths. Mr Polye who launched the movement congratulated the people for the initiative and urged them to work hard to achieve their goal and objectives. Deputy Opposition Leader, Sam Basil, Lae MP, Loujaya Kouza, Goilala William Samb and Rai Coast MP, James Gau shared similar sentiments urging those who founded the movement not to politicise it but work hard to achieve its goals and objectives.
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