PNG lacks leadership

REFER to University of Vudal Vice-Chancellor Prof Philip Siaguru’s comments about bureaucratic red-tape (The National, Dec 1). I agree with him. We are a rich nation getting poorer by the year. I put it down to two factors – leadership without vision and management without integrity. We have too many politicians but not many leaders. Not one MP has told us what his vision is for his electorate, province or country in the next 10 years. Many decisions are ad hoc and reactionary. They lead to poor management. That is why our public servants are inefficient and unproductive. They lack personal integrity. They know the laws and processes but are not willing to abide by them. Unless we get our leadership and management right, we will not progress. We can have the financial resources and good systems but, if the people in the system are dishonest and untrustworthy, we will end up wasting time and resources. It now boils down to individual Papua New Guineans to rise up and be counted.

– David Ulg Ketepa, Michigan, USA

(source: www.thenational.com.pg , editorial - 11/12/2008)