“PNC betrayed our confidence” – National Alliance Party Officials

by National Alliance Party Insider

As the University student-led protest has gained traction, and increasingly the electorate is informed of the excesses of the current government, some of the coalition partners of the People’s National Congress-led government are now trying to save face before voters leading into the National General Elections next year (2017).

And within the inner sanctum of the National Alliance (NA) Party, the post-2017 outlook is taking shape. As the only party in the political history of Papua New Guinea that consecutively held executive government back-to-back government since 2002 (until 2011), the NA officials and NA parliamentary leader Hon. Patrick Pruaitch are now stuck with a Peter O’Neill-led government that has done more harm to destroy the legacy of the NA. According to highly-placed NA party officials, the PNC, of which Peter O’Neill is the Parliamentary leader, will not find NA as a willing partner should any coalition government be negotiated after the 2017 General Elections.

Learning from this term of Parliament, NA is not going to allow the madman, Peter O’Neill to continue his outlandish style of managing this country after 2017. It is now an unwritten consensus that most senior NA party officials have vowed to avoid any association with the People’s National Congress after the 2017 General Elections. One very senior NA Party official stated in a NA Party Convention on the 29th of April this year (2016) in Madang that “all the good work of the NA since 2012 has gone down the drain and by guilt of association we are perceived in the PNG electorate as legitimizing a corrupt PNC-led government”.

The NA Parliamentary leader Patrick Pruaitch, in his speech at the NA Party Convention confirmed his grand vision of an NA alternative government. NA is now working behind the scene to coalesce with like-minded parties to exclude the PNC as a potential coalition partner after the 2017. Patrick Pruaitch and other NA Party officials whilst going about their business in the current coalition know too well that any open declaration of their intention to sideline PNC will not be in their interest. Hence it is a guarded NA Party strategy nevertheless. Almost unanimously, one of the major concerns of the NA Party is the failure of the PNC-led government in building long-term economic development. PNG under the NA worked at charting development blueprints that go beyond the obsession with the LNG and mining sectors.

When he officiated at the launching of the Namatanai Oil Palm agricultural project in New Ireland early this year, Hon. Pruaitch gave a very sinister assessment of the PNC-led government’s failure to reinvest in the agriculture sector of the economy. Much of the groundwork established by the NA-led government in creating the Vision 2050 and the PNG Development Strategic Plan 2010-2030 was replaced by a politically-motivated “Alotau Accord”. Peter O’Neill has used the “Alotau Accord” to concentrate development priorities in Port Moresby at the expense of critical sectors of the economy. The non-renewable sectors of the economy that are emphasized in the Vision 2050 and the PNG Development Strategic Plan – two key development blue-prints under the NA government of 2010 have been completely undermined.

The public relations officer in the NA Party at the Namatanai launching ceremony in relating to the declining state of rural areas such as Namatanai was critical of the Port Moresby-based development. He promptly dismissed the claims by Peter O’Neill that development is happening when contracts, usually inflated are given to O’Neill’s companies and his business partners and cronies. The public relations officer of the NA Party added: “Taim blong Grand Chief bin Praim Minista, ol contracts na public project i bin bihainim process, na costing bin realistic. Nau em olgeta wok Peter O’Neill givim long ol kampani na poroman blong em i dia tumas” [When the Grand Chief was Prime Minister, contracts for major public projects were realistic. Presently, Peter O’Neill is giving out contracts to his companies and cronies at very inflated costs”]. This is the realization within the NA Party that PNC has betrayed the confidence of the Party when it signed the Alotau Accord.

Secondly, Peter O’Neill continuously points out the Somare-led government in his childish “blame game”. Peter O’Neill does not take is always quick to distance himself from the Somare-led government, even though he was State Minister in the two terms of Parliament. For the NA Party, it is an affront that is part of their resolution to promptly discharge their connections with the PNC when the Issue of Writs are called in April 2017.

The Paraka saga, the Universal Bank of Switzerland (UBS) loan and the Manus asylum seekers deal are points where Peter O’Neill has used in shifting blame and focus away from his corrupt and incompetent leadership. It is treated an affront to NA Party executives that Peter O’Neill continuously deflects attention away from his incompetence by blaming the “past” government of Sir Michael Somare. In learning the hypocritical standards in which Peter O’Neill applies, the NA Party quietly regrets the ungrateful attitude of Peter O’Neill.

Finally, the stable economic indicators that were nurtured during the NA-led government have now been ruthlessly destroyed by Peter O’Neill’s populist expenditure. Almost all the care in prudently managing the national budget of the country in the 2002 to 2011 period has all but evaporated. In official NA Party circles, James Marape and his wantok Peter O’Neill are economic illiterates. Their claims as custodians of the public coffers of the PNG economy are premised on their misguided entitlement attitude. One of the NA Party officials stated: “These two individuals think that just because the LNG is based in the Hela and Southern Highlands provinces, their political decisions in the economic sphere is justified. This is a misconceived and at best regionalist thinking. Under NA every decision-maker was equally important irrespective of whether you came from a resource-rich electorate or not”.


To break the Hela and Southern Highlands domination of the economic portfolios in the current PNC-led government, the National Alliance Party President, Mr. Walter Schnaubelt is aspiring to re-establish the dominance of NA in the Highlands region of PNG. The Highlands region, since the days of Hon. Don Pomb Polye has been a serious membership recruiting ground for NA winning candidates. There is a grand strategy playing out in the NA where Highlands-based candidates will tip the winning numbers in place of PNC candidates. For the long-term term, the PNC has done itself more harm than good. Peter O’Neill may be Prime Minister, but in his time he is sure that post-2017, his chances of mobilizing the support of his present coalition partners will be a hard sell. PNC is looking down the barrel of being in the minority when Parliament convenes in the aftermath of the 2017 elections.

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