We the people of Bulolo voted you into Parliment on June 2002 and to date you have delivered nothing into the whole of Bulolo. The Watuts, Mumengs, Buangs, Yamaps and even Wau and Biangai have seen nothing, even Garainas has also complained bitterly and the LLG President (Au Sesete- 2002 Contender) and the Garaina Tea Plantation Manager (Toki Mambare) are going to put a big challange for the Garainas voters 2007 elections.
As soon as you got voted you chalange and try to wrestle the Leadership off Sir Mekere Morauta and lasted for only two weeks as Party Leader & Oposition Leader and to date you have rotted away in the opposition back bench, people like you will make Paias Wingti become prime minister again and suck this country dry with out you knowing.

Come 2007 you will be voted out off office !!! There will be no more John Muingnepe well, we understand you have tried your best but there is no time in this world for appretice we need good and very matured minded LEADER. Mumengs and Buangs its on your Court !!!

I saw John the other day while I was shopping. He was carrying a parcel.

Namba 1 bosim bulolo na nau Namba 3, latest. Yuou know big man pollie, big stomach, and planty side kicks.

We hear MP's are being hungryly receiving brown envelopes recently (Corrupt Money)

Don't you think that maybe the fault lies with yourselves for voting in to power people who have always showed that they have more interest in living in the cities than out in the electorate.
I thought that the LLG President was not Au Seseta(who was a very good candidate in 2002)but his older brother Uttika and I also thought that for as long as Uttika has been the LLG President,he has resided in Lae.
While ever you guys from out in the Garaina area cannot see your way clear to allow only one candidate to stand and represent you all,the seat will go to someone from out in the Snake Valley and you know the two that I am talking about as don't forget,that's where the numbers are.
These candidates also choose to live in the big cities and return at election time.It is very interesting that now election time is looming,we are able to see them again and also to see how fat and healthy they are looking whilst those in the electorate are struggling to make a living.In Wau,we are struggling to make it home from Lae after the luxury of a day shopping in the big city.
How can you be so blind and also,how can you continue to make the same mistakes?

Unbelievable, Meri Wau. Why don't you educate all of us on how we can tell exactly which candidates do NOT "have more interest in living in the cities than out in the electorate".

How do we do that, Meri Wau? I've always reckoned that the system corrupts the individual rather than it be the case that we always elect corrupt individuals who then fit into a systsem of high accountability..........

To begin with-try looking at candidates who don't already live in the big cities and seem pretty much committed to the area for which they stand.Also,take a bit of a look at their track records.If they couldn't even run a bottle-shop in a small town like Bulolo,or manage a whole lot of deceased estates,their managerial experience speaks for itself.
Look also at their personal lives.Do they seem to have good moral judgement,do they have a slight problem dealing with the intake of alcohol? Do they seem to care about the community they are standing for at times other than the twelve months prior to an election? The depth of one's Christianity should also not be judged by the number of times one attends church(although Church is a strengthener of your committment)but by the way you act towards your fellow man.Do they always have time to share with others or as big men,are they so far "up there" that they never have time to share even a drop of the milk of human kindness with another less fortunate.
We all have our own personal standards and I'm sure we,each of us,use a different yardstick when we judge others but it wouldn't hurt anyone,neither you nor I,to be a little more selective as to date we have made a lot of errors.
Surely you agree with this?

I don't agree with you that Papua New Guineans are not highly selective on who they vote for. I think we do-it's just that our selection criteria don't match yours, and in the end, our criteria may not always be effective in getting a person who best serves PNG.

But consider this: if we elected a person who became minister of a department in which they can get kickbacks or steal a large amount of money, they steal it and then use it back home for "developments" wouldn't most Papua New Guineans consider that a successful MP for them, worth re-electing (particularly if he didn't get caught right away).

After all, despite the fact that the national government is charged foremost with looking after the national (not the local) interest, voters throughout PNG try carefully (yes, carefully) to select the candidates who are most likely to serve the local interests, especially particular tribal interests.

And so...... ????

Of course the elected Member is voted because he is likely to put local interest first,that's the reason the people from Garaina were delighted when Muingnepe was voted over candidates from the Buang area.
The problem is that often the elected Member confuses local interest with personal interest.I am not getting personal here because I have no real knowledge of where Muingnepe's interests lie-it certainly isn't in Wau.
Sadly,when a Ministry is given to a member,people from that MP's area are delighted,not realising that more often than not,their MP will no longer have a real chance to serve them as they deserve as his attention will become focused upon the needs of his ministry,at their expense.This has not been our problem for some time as since Samson Napo was appointed the Minister for Tourism( a very short term appointment),we have had no Minister's representing us and although Matthew Bendumb served for a lengthy time as Minister For Transport,the fact that a section of our road was sealed some five years after could not be attributed to anything more than the fact that as almost the oldest settled area on the mainland,we were due to get a decent sealed road.
No-one has all of the answers.I certainly don't claim to do so but we can all make suggestions as to what criteria we would use in the selection of a leader.

I can understand why you would consider managerial experience important, but frankly, what we need in our MPs is leadership, not managers. Ministers have departmental secretaries to do management. Normal MPS have staff they can hire.

What I would rather see are MPs who lead by example. Who do not promote themselves as Christians but rather are seen to be living the life of Jesus in their everyday actions and interactions with other people and communities.

Right on! Now I can see we are beginning to agree
although I doubt they would have become elected if they hadn't shown leadership.They should also show good judgement otherwise they will never be able to hire the staff that they need as opposed to the ones whose relatives brought them political support as too often a job is the result of an election promise-or a comely young thing with an empty head and equally poor judgment is often employed.
I have rather enjoyed our discourse-broke up a pretty uneventful day for me, so thanks!

Talking things for awhile usually always leads to a meeting of minds! Have a good day.

Meri Wau and others please go to the Bulolo Survey and tell us what you have to say about the most possible new member for Bulolo Electorate.
Tah !

Give her a go

I would hardly imagine that I would do much better than last time round,particularly as I have no hauslain and also my step-son is running,possibly as a hot favourite.
The other thing I don't have is a whole lot of "komitis" as they all have expectations which have to be met as soon as you are elected(if you are fortunate enough).
I am not looking for a job and am unwilling to compromise my personal ethics in an effort to be elected.In short,I only wanted to show that you could be elected without buying votes,loading the rolls with names,hosting feasts and making a lot of false promises.I also wanted to show that a woman coulod do a good job.I was wrong and had no regrets as I really thought that JM had the qualifications to be a good MP would .Wrong again!

It will take 20 or more years before all of Wau - Bulolo (the rural population) accept women to be their leader. You see the difference between Bulolo Open & Moresby South is that the voting population in Moresby South have TV in their houses, and are paying taxes and are litterate and dont have gender issues to choose their MP.
The Bulolo does not offer the same as 80+% of the voting population are still in the villages where chiefs are still men, and house line plays a very important component to their voting choices however the preferencial voting system LPV is good as the most popular candidate will win (unlikely to be a women)and not a particular house line.
I support women candidate but when it comes to explaining time honestly the rural population will not swallow that very easily therefore 20 years or more when the Biangais,Watuts,Garainas,Mumengs,Buangs and the Yamaps have TV in their houses and all children (now in school) graduates then gender issue will eventually fades away.

Tok tasol...

You mean it will be 20 years before what might possibly be the majority of voters - women - will vote for a woman?

This sounds like fatalistic thinking to me. An excuse for not trying.

I'll try not to let Dawa put me off.

It seems to me that television causes more damage and problems than it contributes, at least the way EMTV foreign programming dominates. Why is TV an issue. Didimen caused great revolutions in our forefathers and mothers turning to cash crops and they did it by walking around and doing education. They didn't do their stuff on television, goodness gracious.

TV is not an issue here guys!!!
Bulolo Open.
Least Educated Voters + Custom Values = Male Dorminance
(Village Life)
Moresby South Open
Well Educated &
Informed Voters + City Life =Survival(Less Gender Issues)

Weather we like it or not Bulolo will still choose a male for a leader, bet your kina.

I wish to think like you guys but thats remains the solid fact, lets wake up to it.

Me again...Dawa Mangi (Awina Meyagaye)

Why not try a grassroots education effort..... just to see where it leads?

Ask Grand Somare to provide the fundings for grass roots education, I think the election fever has caught up, too late...

On the subject of television,almost every Governor in every Province has had tv connected for his people-all except Morobe.Is this because Lae( and Moresby) had tv supplied by the National broadcaster?
The people of Wau once started to raise money to put up the satellite required but as time went on the price rose and rose and they still have their original K8300,short of some K130,000 now.
Would Gov Wenge be at all interested in funding this as a last ditch effort for support?

Governor Wenge needs all the court case money for the 2007 elections, and his laywer friend Rimbink Pato has comfortably set his company used to be Pato Lawyers (Now Steel Lawyers) on a retaining fee basis with MPG and since then has made money, if you see Governor making noice about new court case it means making more bucks for him and the boys. EM TV for WAU, shelf it first if John Muingnepe refuses to fund it. Or relect him to complete the project as he is the one and only Wau Boy.

Who would be claiming him as a Wau Boy?There is a lot of difference between Wau and Bulolo although people tend to think it is pretty much one and the same place.It usually takes about 35 minutes to drive from Bulolo to Wau(along a very bad road) but now that a landslide has seen fit to block the road ,it takes 2-3 hours and only 4 wheel drive small vehicles can go.
Wau and Bulolo also share one town council which is unfair especially since the last two MP's moved the council to Bulolo so now Wau misses out completely.
The long awaited mining project is also leaving Wau and moving to Lae as roads and services in Wau are non-existent.
Muingnepe belongs to Bulolo and they are welcome to him!

Why are Papua New Guineans so uninterested (or incapable) of discussing the political processes that are at the bottom of most of the crap that occurs in our country? Why this inability to look beyond the personalities? It's getting pretty apparent from looking at the usual posting on PNGSCAPE that we're screwed for 2007. [sigh]

all i can say is
EXCELLENT QUESTION.... WHERE THE BLOODY HELL ARE YOU???
AND WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU DOING????
AS BRITNEY SAYS "WHY DONT YOU DO SOMETHING!!!!!"

all i can say is
EXCELLENT QUESTION.... WHERE THE BLOODY HELL ARE YOU???
AND WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU DOING????
AS BRITNEY SAYS "WHY DONT YOU DO SOMETHING!!!!!"

It is common knoledge that Wenge & Pato are cronies for each other.wenge gives the legal work to &pato act on it, then Wenge pays Pato &Pato in return pays Wenge.The interesting issue is whether Wenge Complies with the Public Finance Management Act.I bet you he doesnt.

The question is where Luther Wenge is getting that money. And is Pato laundering Wenge's money the way Paraka is supposed to be laundering Philemon's money?