East Sepik Governor Allan Bird has spilled the beans! He has lost confidence in the Marape Government and has boycotted Government caucus for 9 months. He says “because I disagreed with many things”. Then he asks “should PM Marape be replaced”? He says he owes Marape his support for the following reasons reasons: 1. K340 Million EU Funding secured under the previous Government and earmarked for Momase Region but he wanted all for the Sepik. PMJM gave him that so fair enough. By: Hon Allan Bird Governor East Sepik When you vote for a Prime Minister, you actually place your trust in him and you hope he does the right thing. After you vote for him, it's your responsibility to keep him on the right track. Hon Marape is the first PM I ever voted for. So I tried to keep Government honest after I voted for Marape. I spoke up many times when I disagreed with certain aspects of government. I felt that was my duty to do so. I didn't understand the Porgera decision but I respected the Engan MPs who pushed that. I disagreed with the Pandemic Bill and the way we responded to COVID19. In the end, the COVID19 strategy was changed the way I argued for. I didn't like the way NEC was used and I spoke against it. I boycotted Government Caucus for 9 months because I disagreed with many things. I am not always right but Marape knows that I am sincere in my disagreements and I felt he respected that. Today, Deputy Prime Minister Sam Basil and twelve other Ministers in the Marape Government crossed the floor to support Peter O’neill and Belden Namah’s bid to move a vote of no confidence against Prime Minister James Marape. A total of 41 Members from the Government side crossed to join Namah and O'neill and provide them the 57 votes required (majority is 56) to take control of Parliament business and change the Permanent Parliament Committee members to ensure their planned Notice of a Vote of No Confidence makes its way to the floor of Parliament. So was this expected? Port Moresby, October, 2020 – James Marape made Papua New Guinea a laughingstock in global media overnight after paying more than ten million Kina to a paper company claiming to have a miracle cure for Coronavirus. World news outlets have condemned the scam outright saying no one in their right mind believes that PM Marape, together with a political crony, a Parliament House staff worker and PNG and Philippine academics who were also in on the act, had beat the world to a COVID cure. British Newspaper the Daily Mirror ridiculed PM Marape as the “Snake Oil Salesman of Papua” who has taken his Cabinet and the country for suckers telling its readers: “PNG’s PM should get a creative writing prize for a Cabinet submission that convinced his ministers he has this miracle cure for COVID. In Papua New Guinea and many other countries, the vote of No Confidence is "A motion of no confidence, or a vote of no confidence, or no confidence motion, is a statement or vote about whether a person in a position of responsibility is no longer deemed fit to hold that position"
In Papua New Guinea Vote of No Confidence comes about of the following scenario. A change of Government comes about by one of two scenarios. Scenario 1: a successful vote of no confidence in the Prime Minister during Parliament Scenario 2: a vacancy in the office of Prime Minister. Political Commentary by Livingston Talex Fontenu in UK Just yesterday I attended a parliament session at the National Assembly of Wales and I gotta tell you, the answer to why UK is among the top economies in the work lies right within the chambers of that glass house! The level of debate, the audacity and professional conducts within the chambers of this house is just mind boggling. Now, let me run some few comparisons here to show you what it means to be a politician in a country like this. Wales Assembly is created and funded under the UK Westminster parliament. The total population in Wales is just little over 3million living in a country the size of all the highlands provinces in PNG combined. The Welsh governments annual budget, like for this year, is £15.3 billion pound – that’s equivalent to almost K68 billion kina. However, there is absolutely no glamour in the way politicians are treated here – something very common and widely accepted in PNG. Commentary by Harini Matabi AluMale Yesterday I have been to Masi (Hasuline) Village in Gahaku Local Level Government in Goroka Open Electorate of Eastern Highlands Province. Masi Village is one the high populated area of Gahaku LLG among four LLGs in Goroka Open which is now going back for the by election. In looks to by election , Goroka Open seat was won by Peoples National Congress Party (PNC) Mr.Henry Ame as siting member which was challenge by Former Member and one the pioneer politician and favorite son of Eastern Highlands MR. Bire Kimisopa. Henry Ame and PNC will Restore Free Education, Healthcare, Infrastructure, Law and Order in Goroka19/7/2020
“The People’s National Congress Party is proud to have Henry Ame as our candidate in the upcoming Goroka by-election, so he can restore services and continue to drive vital PNC infrastructure projects forward,” said PNC Leader, Hon. Peter O’Neill, CMG, MP. “Henry Ame is a businessman with great experience who also knows what is needed to get agriculture and SMEs moving again in the Eastern Highlands. “Goroka is the gateway to the Highlands and we will keep delivering at the local level in the Eastern Highlands Province. By Dom David Kua __________________________ "Free Education,Primary Heath care infrastructure development, and economic empowerment are the bedrock policies for national development and progressive growth of a nation." _____________________________ On the 16th September of 1975, a fine young man pulled the union Jack down at the Murray barrack hill pronouncing the Independent state of PNG and set the road map of PNG free from foreign colonialism. Grand Chief Sir Micheal Thomas Somare did great in his wisdom to deliver our nation. He set the benchmark and walked the hard yards over the last 40 years until his resignation from active politics. Somare resembled the old biblical version of Moses testaments leading the Israelites out into the wilderness in search for paradise for 40 years. 250 Days of PNG Decline Under Marape Commentary By John Igiri, PNG Observer It is eight months since James Marape was given the position of Prime Minister by his Parliamentary colleagues following a tumultuous few months of politics. Now only 250 days later we are in a position whereby there is outward revolt in the Cabinet, NEC meetings are being cancelled because there is no quorum, Ministers are refusing to be seen at public events with the Prime Minister and members of the public can see the general malaise of a Government in crisis. 𝗟𝗔𝗖𝗞 𝗢𝗙 𝗟𝗘𝗔𝗗𝗘𝗥𝗦𝗛𝗜𝗣 𝗘𝗫𝗣𝗘𝗥𝗜𝗘𝗡𝗖𝗘 His situation has come about due to a lack of capability as a Leader, having never had any executive management experience. This is made worse by more than 20 billion dollars in foreign investment having been lost as the Marape Government has been unable to reach agreement with investors. 𝗟𝗢𝗦𝗧 𝗣𝗥𝗢𝗝𝗘𝗖𝗧𝗦 The most recent failure being the P’Nyang project that after years of negotiations has now been cancelled. This has happened soon after the Papua LNG project debacle when Marape said he would negotiate new terms to the O’Neill Government agreement, only for Marape to agree to the original terms after a six-month delay. Now the major project partner, Total from France, has placed the project on indefinite hold. He claimed to have been wanting to get a better deal for landowners, but the real sticking point in these project failures are known to be attempts by certain characters to subvert sub-contracts. |
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