Round and round we go in endless circles with Manasupe Zurenuoc. A conspiracy or Incompetency


We’ve heard it all before, not once, but many times.  A senior public servant or national leader angrily says enough is enough about something people are doing.    There is a brief pause during which the problems stop or at least decrease.  No one is punished.  Everyone becomes confident again, and it becomes business as usual.   That is, until the next time that the senior public servant or national leader says enough is enough.
Round and round we go, where we stop everyone knows because we’ll never stop this crazy process that seems to be uniquely PNG.   Never being able to stop wrong doing of any kind at any level for more than briefly.   Always back to Square 1

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One would have thought that Chief Secretary to Government Sir Manasupe Zureneuoc was going to be different.  He was presented to the nation as an action man who would change things for the better.  Well here we are more than 2 years into the O’Neill administration and once again we have the same old problem of our politicians and public servants traveling overseas for trips that are portrayed as VERY IMPORTANT BUSINESS THAT WILL RADICALLY IMPROVE PNG but which are actually pleasure trips at the taxpayers expense.  We’ve already heard Sir Manasupe tell everyone to stop the overseas junkets.   The same old problem has been front page headlines for how many times over how many years?   How many more times will we hear Sir Manasupe or his replacement have the same complaint all over again?
The Post Courier, with its usual idiotic style editorial, saluted Zurenuoc with the title “Crackdown on overseas travel long overdue”.    However to its great credit, the PC finally laid out the truth and that is that the problem has persisted forever and never seems solveable.    The PC correctly notes that all this finger shaking and warning about overseas junkets happened right after the 2012 election.  
To be frank, why is it that we seem to be completely incapable of making any changes for the better that last?  Why do other nations progress in the area of good governance while we always slide back to Square 1?  Why wasn’t the problem with overseas junkets solved ages ago?
SIMPLE SOLUTION THAT IS SOOOOO HARD FOR US TO EVER IMPLEMENT IN PNG:
The Post Courier didn’t provide the solution.  Yet, the answer is simple, it has always been simple, but no one wants to hear the solution because that would require some unpleasant action that we all want to avoid in PNG.   The solution is ENFORCEMENT, followed by STRICT PUNISHMENT.   Neither step has ever been strong in PNG.   Enforcement, followed by strict punishment doesn’t happen in our government, nor in our schools.   Private businesses do a much better job at this and that’s why they progress.  But PNG owned businesses?   Erratic results!  
The same reason why the pollies and the bureaucrats continually go back to their old habits and waste taxpayers money is the same reason why our politicians and bureaucrats continue to steal money and violate the public trust.   They have little fear of being caught, much less punished because in fact, hardly anyone gets significantly punished for these things.   So why do things right, it doesn’t really matter.  
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The Prime Minister is part of the problem.  Have we so quickly forgotten when he promised to make any MP who was charged with a criminal offence to step down until they were cleared?  Ooops.  Forgot about that one!  He did make David Arore step down until Arore bribed the magistrate and Oro and was freed on charges of election fraud, but did O’Neill force Hela MP Francis Potape to step down when he was charged?  What about the child lover, Gulf Province Governor Havila Kavo.  Did O’Neill force him to step down?  Of course not.   Peter O’Neill only made the threat to deceive the public.  He had no intention of really punishing MPs in his government, because we all know what those MPs would do to him if he did THAT to them!   Look at the scheming David Arore as an example.

What about Sir Manasupe Zurenuoc, will he start prosecuting either MPs or government bureaucrats  over the lavish overseas trips, complete with wine, women and easy living?  Don’t count on it and that’s why you can expect the problem to continue around its endless loop.   You’ll see Sir Manasupe straight in the middle,his head spinning.   Sir Manasupe has no more guts than those before him.  His  own inability to be tough is the real reason for why the problem continues and no number of finger wagging threats are going to change things.  

That brings us to the title of this discussion.   Is the reason why we go around in circles due to incompetency or  conspiracy.   For the endless problem of overseas junkets, it is clear that Sir Manasupe is incompetent in being able to solve the problem since he resorts to the same tired technique that never worked before.   In the Prime Minister?   Peter O’Neill allows his own MPs to frighten him into only pretending to punish them.  He helps them, they help him.  That’s called a conspiracy. 

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