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OP.ED It is sad really to read every week that rural people are fixing their roads with their hands so that cars can run to and from their villages, like the story we have today about that community at Kudjip in South Waghi, Jiwaka Province. They have to take up their spades and bush knives to do the work because the machines are not coming. It will cost money to engage machines and they are too poor to hire the heavy earthmoving equipment. But the story is even sadder when one learns that the road they are repairing is a provincial road or a national road – meaning the responsibility is with the provincial government or the national government. The road assets in this country are the lifelines of PNG, the arteries that pump the life sustaining nutrients to the body. It’s time MPs account for the District Service Improvement Program funds. In the name of transparency, accountability and good governance, this must happen. It is of interest to every Papua New Guinean in this country to

OP.ED It is sad really to read every week that rural people are fixing their roads with their hands so that cars can run to and from their villages, like the story we have today about that community at Kudjip in South Waghi, Jiwaka Province. They have to take up their spades and bush knives to do the work because the machines are not coming. It will cost money to engage machines and they are too poor to hire the heavy earthmoving equipment. But the story is even sadder when one learns that the road they are repairing is a provincial road or a national road – meaning the responsibility is with the provincial government or the national government. The road assets in this country are the lifelines of PNG, the arteries that pump the life sustaining nutrients to the body. It’s time MPs account for the District Service Improvement Program funds. In the name of transparency, accountability and good governance, this must happen. It is of interest to every Papua New Guinean in this country

SAM BASIL MP P arliamentarians who have been mandated to represent their constituents are being intimidated and mistreated by their equally represented members of parliament who are in the executive arm of the legislature whom we know as ministers. While I also speak on behalf of some members of parliament who are still awaiting their developmental grants especially the DSIP funds that we all know was recently dished out to only the members of parliament from the government benches or who supported the government during the recent no-confidence attempt. The finance officers in Waigani have confirmed last week Thursday 09.09.10 that all remaining cheques of K2m especially for the opposition members of parliament was signed and released to the Finance minister’s office and are in his possession. So far all DSIP cheques from this eight parliament were physically handed out by the then Finance Minister Patrick Pruaitch, Acting Finance Minister Hon. Arthur Somare, once by the Prime Minister

SAM BASIL MP P arliamentarians who have been mandated to represent their constituents are being intimidated and mistreated by their equally represented members of parliament who are in the executive arm of the legislature whom we know as ministers. While I also speak on behalf of some members of parliament who are still awaiting their developmental grants especially the DSIP funds that we all know was recently dished out to only the members of parliament from the government benches or who supported the government during the recent no-confidence attempt. The finance officers in Waigani have confirmed last week Thursday 09.09.10 that all remaining cheques of K2m especially for the opposition members of parliament was signed and released to the Finance minister’s office and are in his possession. So far all DSIP cheques from this eight parliament were physically handed out by the then Finance Minister Patrick Pruaitch, Acting Finance Minister Hon. Arthur Somare, once by the Prime Min