![]() By Bonny Kaiyo Eastern Highlands Students Association at University of Papua New Guinea welcomed Opposition Leader and Vanimo Green River MP Belden Namah to the campus this afternoon. He was here, mingling easily with the country's future leadership, to address them on issues of concern to them, including pressing national issues that had bearing on their future professional life. Namah reiterated his position on the huge challenge facing the Marape/Basil regime. The major premise was one in which the government failed to adequately deal with the obstacles, and therefore the need to make PNG the richest, Christian, black nation on earth. It is going around in circles. Only alarm And, no evidence of Prime Minister James Marape's dream and truth, to 'Take Back PNG'. He said to determine ' enough is enough', and therefore the slogan should underpin the majestic outcome to fix up these things troubling him, his expectation.
Instead the truth, ' 'Plato's Cave Syndrome', got worse. The next level corruption? The Opposition Leader described the poor handling of Porgera Goldmine, Papua LNG, and Wafi/Golpu, as the sign of the Prime Minister James Marape coming into office having promised alot yet mainly grandstanding instead of getting foreign direct investors to measure up. And, he said the best approach to get foreign direct investors to partner in development was to tighten up on existing laws on equity participation so that the outcome is a win - win for the government, and foreign involvement. Namah blamed Prime Minister James Marape for the crises the country is confronted with namely economic crisis and health crisis. He said: ' For you university students, the economic crisis in mathematical terms is that out of 40,000 students who will graduate from universities and colleges through the country at the end of this year, only 10,000 will find employment'. The students thanked the Opposition Leader for being steadfast in his role to ensure the Opposition was still standing, and to make government accountable. He also answered questions including on the implications of the Pandemic Act in which constitutional guarantee on rights of citizens, and responsibilities of authorities had become frozen, and accountability for use of public finance unambiguous. ' I have already instructed lawyers to file the case, and will have an update this week'. The students gifted the Opposition Leader with Eastern Highlands bilums, and pledged their support for him for his untiring stand to fight corruption and stop the cargo cult approach to solving national issues, starting from basics including transparency in spending of public funds. Namah urged the students to contribute to fighting for accountable government from their space as educated elites because no other union from civil society will. ' The President of PNG Trade Union Congress has been appointed by the government to be Chairman of National Gaming Board, that is ultimate betrayal, compromise of interests of the workers union'. The Opposition Leader said his training as a soldier involved a pledge he made to serve God, Country, and the Constitution. ' It still burns in me, and my message to the country is if it comes down to one man standing on the issue of accountable government, this is part of who I am. ' One man plus God is a majority'. He further assured medical students that they have his word on Covid - vaccination, and he will fund any court proceedings where students are threatened with penalties for refusing to be vaccinated. ' The Pandemic Act cannot take away freedom of choice enshrined, and provided by the Constitution'. Namah thanked the Eastern Highlands students studying at UPNG for trusting in him, and the Opposition, to continue to be the voice for the voiceless, silent majority in the country. Namah also referred to the unsuccessful attempt by the Opposition to seek the court's interpretation on the adjournment of Parliament. On Friday last week, a Supreme Court 5 - man bench unanimously ruled that Opposition constitutional challenge against the Speaker Job Pomat to adjourn Parliament to August 10 2021 was constitutional. Opposition Leader Belden Namah said following the Supreme Court ruling: '....we gave it the best shot possible, but the court ruled otherwise'. And, this insight into law as a reflection of class interest. According to one analyst on the court proceedings, the matter was non - justiciable, that the matter was not capable of being decided by a Court of Justice. About 300 students were present and heard the Opposition Leader Belden Namah make his address as the guest of honour of Eastern Highlands Students Association at UPNG, held at Nature Park. (Photo caption: Opposition Leader Belden Namah - invited to UPNG Campus for student event; Eastern Highlands Students Association - gifted OLBN with bilums as symbolic expression of their support for his fight against corruption and cargo cut approach by Marape/Basil regime to handling pressing national issues;Pandemic Act 2020 - UPNG students defined, posed questions on where it as a vehicle for government to encroach on individual rights and freedom, and accountable government and leadership enshrined in the Constitution; OLBN - his soldier's pledge to serve God, Country, and Constitution still burning today, therefore his dictum ' one man plus God is majority'.) Next : Huan Gulf MP Seymour Wants Teacher Sacked For Reporting Government Negligence At Her School Comments are closed.
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