NO ROOM FOR HONEST, HARDWORKING PEOPLE LIKE ZEBEDEE MOSETO IN PORT MORESBY ANYMORE


More than 90% of the population of Port Moresby didn’t traditionally come from the lands of Port Moresby.  Instead, they or their parents migrated to Port Moresby from someplace else in PNG.  But now that they’re here, they don’t want anyone else to have the same opportunity that they, their parents, or others in their family had.    Now they want to stop immigration into Port Moresby.   In their hazy brain filled with selfishness and greed, they forget that they or their parents, pushed out customary landowners directly or indirectly in their own migration into Port Moresby.   Yes, they seem to forget about that.  

These self righteous migrants or descendants of migrants to Port Moresby also seem to forget that the pockets of most migrants were not full of money when they arrived, but often completely empty.   These, the first urban poor of PNG. struggled, frequently lived as squatters and worked their way up slowly in economic status.   They saved their money to send their kids to school which are much better in Port Moresby than in nearly any rural area of PNG today.  

This is the reality of Port Moresby, no matter how much Governor Powes Parkop wants to ignore it.    Port Moresby today was grown mostly by poor migrants.   Maybe some of you were blessed to come to Port Moresby with a job waiting for you but that is not the story of most Moresby residents today, and mates, the majority rules in a democracy, not the elite minority viewpoint.

The second reality that seems to escape some of you facebooking self righteous Moresby residents is that the selling of betelnut is one of the most lucrative, reliable avenues of income generation for poor uneducated immigrants in Port Moresby, struggling for upward mobility.

Yes, that second fact also seems to be something that Powes Parkop doesn’t want the people of Port Moresby to remember and realise.
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Yesterday there was an article in PNG Blogs that alluded to a young fellow living in Lae, not Moresby.  This fellow is very special and hard working.   His name is Zebedee Moseto, 18 years of age.   Zebedee is disabled in body, but not in mind nor spirit.   Mr Moseto should be raised up and put high upon people’s shoulders in celebration.  We should be hoisting Mr Moseto much higher than we should ever see people lifting Powes Parkop or Justin Tkatchenko, both obese with the results of an easy life and fine living.  

Zebedee would be easy to carry on our shoulders in contrast in Parkop and Tkatchenko and he deserves it more.  

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If you don’t know Zebedee’s story, you should.  He is an example of a humble, hard working person who has never let his disabilities get him down.   Zebedee sells betelnut and smokes for a living at 9mile market, Lae.   He has done this for years to survive.  To survive, mates, to survive.   But Zebedee has a dream and that is to participate in the disabled sports portion of the Pacific Games.   Unfortunately, he can not do that without the proper sports shoes.   He has been selling betelnut to earn money to buy those special shoes and realise his dream.  

Let’s repeat a simple fact once again, especially since some of you out there don’t want to accept it:  Selling betelnut in PNG is one of the most dependable and lucrative ways to make money that is available for poor struggling people.  The same is true for Zebedee and the realising of his dream.  

If Zebedee had the misfortune to live in Port Moresby instead of Lae, there would be no hope of special sports shoes or hard earned dreams these days, thanks to Parkop-Tkatchenko.   By now he would have had his betelnuts and earned money kicked away from him and stolen repeatedly by Parkop’s reserve boys.    Zebedee doesn’t have the physical ability to run away from the reserve officers, so he probably wouldn’t have been hit by a vehicle, but he still could have been dead by now because of beatings or other atrocities caused by Parkop’s reserve boys.

Zebedee is not alone, far from alone.  There are many poor, struggling and aspiring young people like Zebedee Moseto right now and most of them live in Port Moresby, not Lae.  They are not criminals and they should not be called “dirt” or “dust” or some of the other bad names that some of you flashy dressers mutter whenever you walk buy such people.  They are human beings just like you, who probably earn a more honest living than Parkop or Tkatchenko.   These urban poor are the faceless humanity that is being pushed away by the authoritarian Parkop-Tkatchenko tactics.

Where would most of your Moresby resident descendants of immigrants from other parts of PNG be today if the Parkop-Tkatchenko thug reservists been around when you or your parents or even your grandparents had migrated to Moresby to make a better life for themselves and their children.

The continuing arguments from some of you that Port Moresby looking clean is more important to you and the nation than giving poor people the right to earn a living in the most guaranteed way they know how, is the ultimate gesture of greed and selfishness.   I really feel sorry for those of you who are so into cleanliness that you have lost sight of how dirty your own soul has become.

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