Manchmal sind es die Nebensätze der Politiker, in denen ihre wahren Absichten zu Tage treten : "and Bougainville Copper was helping us" zeigt schön, wie die Bürger in Bougainville um ihren Anteil betrogen wurden, der zwar PNG ermöglichte Unabhängig zu werden, aber für Bougainville fast nichts ließ.
Post Courier 20.Sep.2010
PNG in ruins, says pioneer
By GORETHY KENNETH
ONE of Bougainville and Papua New Guinea’s first MPs who helped Prime Minister Sir Michael Somare shape and take the country to independence in 1975 says “PNG em i bagarap pinis”.
In an angry tone, Bougainville’s first North Bougainville MP and the country’s first Information and Extension (communication) minister and also Commerce and Business Development and Health minister Donatus Mola, is blaming too many consultants and university educated elites for running Papua New Guinea down today. He is also blaming too many advisers who claim they are doing justice but are ruining the country. Mr Mola also decried the service delivery into rural areas which he says is poor and at some stage, none at all.
“I am cross, I want to talk to Somare, I can get angry with him because he is my brother. I have not had the chance to talk to him for a long time. I want to go and see him in Moresby and talk to him about all this. I want him to buy my ticket and I will fly to go and see him,” Mr Mola says with his head down. You know, my bubu, he lifts his head up to speak, we only had enough money in the past, not much as we see today, and Bougainville Copper was helping us big time, that’s why I had the upper hand.
“We also did not need or had no university degrees and no PHDs to run this nation, but we had a very effective delivery service and we were delivering service right through to rural areas on time, now, there is very little or at some instances, none at all and people are complaining, begging and everything else,” Mr Mola says: “I am really cross because I don’t know what happened?...it is Somare’s advisers na planti save man blong tudei, giamanim Somare tumas na stealim olgeta mani blo pipol blong yumi.
“I get cross many times I think about how the Government and the people are being treated today,” Mr Mola reciprocates his pidgin and English accent fluently.
In an interview on the eve of Papua New Guinea’s 35 independence anniversary celebrations, Mr Mola, who proudly talks about how Sir Michael Somare vested on him and Sir Paul Lapun - first south Bougainville MP to negotiate PNG into independence and how they played instrumental roles in negotiating for factions to vote for independence.
“I have every reason to get angry, I know people will say that time and technology have changed but the policies and laws to deliver should not have changed.
“When Papua New Guinea was preparing to go into independence, the whole Highlands faction was against it because the kiaps brainwashed them and told them that “ol nambis bai rulim kantri na yupla bai nogat”.”
“Somare at that time lost hope in negotiating these highlanders coming to terms with the southern, New Guinea islands and the Momase for independence.
“He sent me to Mount Hagen and Sir Paul Lapun to Goroka. I basically told the blokes in Hagen, if you don’t agree with us now, we Bougainvilleans will break up and take our copper mine money away and you will suffer. That’s what I told Sir Paul Lapun to relay to the Goroka group too. We both successfully returned to Somare with good news and that’s it! We gained independence from Australia. I am also the person that chose the flag we fly today. The Highlands, Momase and southern regions settled for a blue and white and some other coloured flag. I refused them because there was no representation of Bougainville inside-the colour black. So when I saw the one we fly today, I told Somare to fly with me to Kerema and officially bring it and announce it because it contained the colour I was after - black!” |
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