Fastest Way to Become Millionaire in PNG

The PNG politics is not about serving people but serving the politician’s own interest.  Even at the cost of human lives.

Almost all the aspiring politicians rise their hands up for one reason. They do not rise up to a “Call to Serve” but serve their own personal interest.

The current sitting members of Parliament, the former Members of Parliament and those that fallout from the contest - they enter politics with empty pockets but go out with full pockets.  Any poor men/women enter PNG politics and by lucky they gets elected to represent the people, they come out as rich men and women or as millionaire. That’s the fact of Papua New Guinea politics.

Papua New Guinea has produced brainless millionaires through corrupt deals but suppress the real millionaire brains. As a result many innovative business ideas are dying and many highly intelligent workforce are moving oversea. Many academics and professional have call on PNG government to invest in innovative ideas that can transform the PNG socioeconomic landscape but the authority have no interest in developing the nation but improving their own wealth. 

The former, or current politicians or high level of government officials are feeding and educating their children on “dirty money” as they make millions of kina through corrupt deals.

2017 national general election under the leadership of Prime Minister Peter O’Neill has gone in the history book of PNG as “one of the worse election in the short history of PNG politics”. Many people have died from election related tribal fights and those scares are still reminds in the hearts and minds of many people. this is because leaders are fighting for money than people while people's choices are manipulated by season cash handouts.

To enrich them with money, they leader change the government service delivery structure.

The government has introduced Small Medium Enterprise (SME) but this has become politicize and tangible development are not happening. The member of parliament is a legislator, yet he/she becomes a project manager, implementer, accountant thus politics has infiltrated into all systems of government delivery mechanism, which significantly setback the delivery effort.

Current government is investing lots of public funds in infrastructure development, especially in Port Moresby that sets new benchmarks, but at the cost of doubt price.  

Let’s look at the scenario:

a canned fish at the supermarket will cost $5.0 but if it has increased to $150.00. Are you happy to spend $150.00 on a canned fish? What happens to $145.00? Where these monies are gone?

The social services, especially education and health are poorly supported. The government said free education and free health services, yet it’s not translating to really outcome. Many schools in the country do not have money to run the school. They have no money to buy library books, text books, and many school projects are sitting there idol.

On health service, there is no life serving drugs available health clinics. If Port Moresby- the country’s major hospital is running of basic drugs than those in the rural health facilities are in worse states.

The future of the country looks uncertain as huge foreign loans in billions of kina is consumed by high cost infrastructure project costs, the future generation lives are chained with these loans.