Is Unitech SRC President a SELLOUT?
By CONCERNED UNITECH STUDENT
After I read the essay that Unitech SRC president Mr Livingston Hosea put on this blog recently I knew I must write another side to this story. Mr Hosea writes about the many government actions or inactions that have caused the crisis we now have at Unitech and how it led to our effective VC being deported to Australia. All that seems to be true and accurate. In his essay Mr Hosea also explains his strategy for bringing back the VC. He bends over backwards almost touching the ground to assure everyone that we students will not be protesting. I guess that means we students were only thinking about the Unitech crisis but not doing anything. Or maybe we were thinking a little, while going to class and studying. Maybe also eating, playing sports, sleeping, going to town and talking with friends. That kind of relaxed attitude could not train us students to focus on the issue of Schram mistreatment. It does not put our concentration into giving our very best to convince the government to let him return to PNG.
All that time when we were busy thinking, eating, going to class and studying, playing sports, sleeping going to town and talking with friends, our SRC president was negotiating. Anyone learning about business management knows that you must negotiate from a position of power if you want to win. The only power Mr Hosea could rely on was people power which would have to come mostly from Unitech students and staff. However students who are busy thinking, eating, studying, going to class and studying, playing sports, sleeping, going to town and talking with friends but never protesting, don’t look very concerned to anyone looking in and can't provide the people power that is needed.
The result is that our SRC president found his negotiation going nowhere. It seems from his essay that he never wanted us to protest: ““We never protested from day one and we will not”. Why would Mr Hosea reveal his negotiating strategy to his opponents from the start? WHY?
Finally after Mr Hosea woke up to what happens when you try to negotiate without strong power supporting him, he called on us to boycott classes. For a while staff were joining us. During last week’s boycott, our SRC president flew more than once to Port Moresby
to speak to people in Waigani. He met with the PM we are told but didn’t say much of anything during that rare opportunity. What was the point. Our proof that nothing was accomplished is that the VC has not
returned. And some of us who keep to ourselves and are quite but not fools, began to ask again WHY?
From my viewpoint this was beginning to look like what happens when Asian investors come into a village and invite local leaders to go overseas with them. Village leaders return and tell everyone all about the important people they met and what great changes would happen.
Of course they don’t give any details of what was discussed but ask the community to support them by signing papers. Next thing you know Asians are invading their land with some SABL con development and the
village people find out they have gained nothing and lost everything. Our SRC president’s actions made some of us wonder if something similar was happening. As the week went by, critical times when he needed to hold a forum to keep all students updated also went by
without a word. When the purpose of our boycott (or so he said) to get Peter ONeill to come to campus and explain everything to us on Friday failed, again there was no forum to explain things after he returned
from POM.
It was almost like our SRC president wanted the boycott to collapse by staying silent and letting our energy disappear. This weekend Mr Hosea disappeared. Now those close to him say that he is backing down on everything. No student mass withdrawal on Tuesday as he originally threatened the government, and no boycott after that. What might explain these strange events? Could it be the word SELLOUT?
Livingston Hosea let down all students who are concerned and dedicated to winning this struggle. We feel stupid to believe he was negotiating with our interests at heart. Again we ask ourselves why so much talking with top people at the same time he was telling us not to
protest. And now he is going to tell us to end the boycott? SELLOUT! Most of us have seen this happen before with our newly elected MPs. They tell us they are going to fight for us if only we help them win the seat. Once they win they spend a lot of time in POM, talking to the big people. The next thing we see is that they forget all about the people who supported them and go to the other side, stealing the money meant for our development projects. SELLOUT! Is our SRC president doing secret deals? Why else would he be ready to stop the boycott even though the government hasn’t backed down on
anything? That is never the result when there is too much protesting. It only happens when there is not enough! Why is the SRC president not urging us to peacefully protest more strongly than ever to demand some real answers from the government? SELLOUT?
Why are we now learning that the government investigation that our SRC president supported is actually a big joke? It seems that investigation is all about the VC credentials and does not look into any corruption at Unitech. Why is Livingston Hosea not informing us clearly about why he shook hands with government to support this joke investigation? Why is he not calling us students to massively protest that big joke? SELLOUT! Now the SRC president has started putting all his trust in politicians. Whatever got into his head to think opposition leader Belden Namah who has many corruption suspicions over his head will do anything but poison our protest? What is the point of getting MPs to ask questions of the PM in parliament when all ONeill has to say in reply is that he set up the current investigation to address the Unitech problem .
For someone who says he wants to bring back our VC, Livingston Hosea sure doesn’t show it with his actions. First he tells his negotiating strategies to his opponents. Next he tells them that Unitech students will never protest. After that he hardly ever holds forums for students and staff at critical times but spends heaps of time in POM behind closed doors with the big shots and politicians. SELLOUT! Livingston Hosea you have a lot to explain to the students and staff at Unitech.
After I read the essay that Unitech SRC president Mr Livingston Hosea put on this blog recently I knew I must write another side to this story. Mr Hosea writes about the many government actions or inactions that have caused the crisis we now have at Unitech and how it led to our effective VC being deported to Australia. All that seems to be true and accurate. In his essay Mr Hosea also explains his strategy for bringing back the VC. He bends over backwards almost touching the ground to assure everyone that we students will not be protesting. I guess that means we students were only thinking about the Unitech crisis but not doing anything. Or maybe we were thinking a little, while going to class and studying. Maybe also eating, playing sports, sleeping, going to town and talking with friends. That kind of relaxed attitude could not train us students to focus on the issue of Schram mistreatment. It does not put our concentration into giving our very best to convince the government to let him return to PNG.
All that time when we were busy thinking, eating, going to class and studying, playing sports, sleeping going to town and talking with friends, our SRC president was negotiating. Anyone learning about business management knows that you must negotiate from a position of power if you want to win. The only power Mr Hosea could rely on was people power which would have to come mostly from Unitech students and staff. However students who are busy thinking, eating, studying, going to class and studying, playing sports, sleeping, going to town and talking with friends but never protesting, don’t look very concerned to anyone looking in and can't provide the people power that is needed.
The result is that our SRC president found his negotiation going nowhere. It seems from his essay that he never wanted us to protest: ““We never protested from day one and we will not”. Why would Mr Hosea reveal his negotiating strategy to his opponents from the start? WHY?
Finally after Mr Hosea woke up to what happens when you try to negotiate without strong power supporting him, he called on us to boycott classes. For a while staff were joining us. During last week’s boycott, our SRC president flew more than once to Port Moresby
to speak to people in Waigani. He met with the PM we are told but didn’t say much of anything during that rare opportunity. What was the point. Our proof that nothing was accomplished is that the VC has not
returned. And some of us who keep to ourselves and are quite but not fools, began to ask again WHY?
From my viewpoint this was beginning to look like what happens when Asian investors come into a village and invite local leaders to go overseas with them. Village leaders return and tell everyone all about the important people they met and what great changes would happen.
Of course they don’t give any details of what was discussed but ask the community to support them by signing papers. Next thing you know Asians are invading their land with some SABL con development and the
village people find out they have gained nothing and lost everything. Our SRC president’s actions made some of us wonder if something similar was happening. As the week went by, critical times when he needed to hold a forum to keep all students updated also went by
without a word. When the purpose of our boycott (or so he said) to get Peter ONeill to come to campus and explain everything to us on Friday failed, again there was no forum to explain things after he returned
from POM.
It was almost like our SRC president wanted the boycott to collapse by staying silent and letting our energy disappear. This weekend Mr Hosea disappeared. Now those close to him say that he is backing down on everything. No student mass withdrawal on Tuesday as he originally threatened the government, and no boycott after that. What might explain these strange events? Could it be the word SELLOUT?
Livingston Hosea let down all students who are concerned and dedicated to winning this struggle. We feel stupid to believe he was negotiating with our interests at heart. Again we ask ourselves why so much talking with top people at the same time he was telling us not to
protest. And now he is going to tell us to end the boycott? SELLOUT! Most of us have seen this happen before with our newly elected MPs. They tell us they are going to fight for us if only we help them win the seat. Once they win they spend a lot of time in POM, talking to the big people. The next thing we see is that they forget all about the people who supported them and go to the other side, stealing the money meant for our development projects. SELLOUT! Is our SRC president doing secret deals? Why else would he be ready to stop the boycott even though the government hasn’t backed down on
anything? That is never the result when there is too much protesting. It only happens when there is not enough! Why is the SRC president not urging us to peacefully protest more strongly than ever to demand some real answers from the government? SELLOUT?
Why are we now learning that the government investigation that our SRC president supported is actually a big joke? It seems that investigation is all about the VC credentials and does not look into any corruption at Unitech. Why is Livingston Hosea not informing us clearly about why he shook hands with government to support this joke investigation? Why is he not calling us students to massively protest that big joke? SELLOUT! Now the SRC president has started putting all his trust in politicians. Whatever got into his head to think opposition leader Belden Namah who has many corruption suspicions over his head will do anything but poison our protest? What is the point of getting MPs to ask questions of the PM in parliament when all ONeill has to say in reply is that he set up the current investigation to address the Unitech problem .
For someone who says he wants to bring back our VC, Livingston Hosea sure doesn’t show it with his actions. First he tells his negotiating strategies to his opponents. Next he tells them that Unitech students will never protest. After that he hardly ever holds forums for students and staff at critical times but spends heaps of time in POM behind closed doors with the big shots and politicians. SELLOUT! Livingston Hosea you have a lot to explain to the students and staff at Unitech.
