Adventures in futility: an open letter to the Acting Minister for Education
By J L BRAUN Attention: Hon James Marape, Parliament Haus On a personal note, I trust you’re sitting down, sir. We near the first anniversary of my initial expression of interest via email to FinCorp Haus’s Assistant Secretary for National High Schools. Evidently Joyce Tepu doesn’t monitor her inbox. (Do any officials?) This despite her Prime Minister’s recurring public admonitions for the public service to implement implement implement. Therefore, three weeks later I airmail a thick envelope to Secretary Musawe Sinabare and Deputy Luke Taita, requesting them to forward my credentials to the Curriculum Branch and other relevant personnel. I await acknowledgement. In Tony Fova’s late-September published proclamation related to OBE exit strategy, he requests suggestions, confirms his appointment as Executive Officer for the OBE Secretariat, and reveals his phone numbers and email contact. My email to him elicits Message copied…I shall pass your papers over to Ms Tepu. You know the rest