GRAND Chief and Governor-General Sir Michael Ogio looked back at country’s 40 years of independence and picked education as key to growth and success.
“We have achieved many things in the space of four decades of self-rule. “We can look to the coming decades with a certain level of confidence,” Sir Michael told Independence anniversary revellers at the Sir Hubert Murray Stadium during the flag-lowering ceremony. He encouraged Papua New Guineans to make decisions based on the experience of the past 40 years and urged them to embrace education. “The sum of our experiences shows that we have done well in certain areas, for example, self-government, stable democracy, regular elections and nation-building and self-reliance,” he said. “We have done not so well in other areas, for example, law and order issues, breakdown of government services, non-achievement of development aspirations and poor social indicators in the region.” “We did the best we could in some areas even if others think it may not be good enough, for example, own national development plans, relative political stability in a multi-ethnic country and economic growth fuelled slowly by resource boom.”
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