PNG SUFFERS FROM ‘MORAL DECAY’ – MINISTER

PNG is suffering from “moral decay” and on the verge of collapse, according to a senior cabinet Minister.
Kandep Open MP and Minister for Higher Education, Research, Science and Technology, Don Pomb Polye had expressed grave concern from his observation following the events of Jan 10 that crippled the buzzing Port Moresby metropolis to its knees.
More than 16 people were killed during widespread riot, looting, burning of shops after NCD/Central Police took strike action that day compromising public safety at the mercy of free-willer looter opportunists.
“The looting was a sign of moral collapse. A nation is self-destructive when there is NO moral discipline. There is no justification. There remains no one else to be blamed for self-inflicted suffering but self.
“Such illustration of moral decay begs questions like: How do PNG parents raise their children? What are Christian churches doing, and are their doctrines geared specifically correctly to raise moral values? Is our school curriculum correctly positioned, and if so, are our teachers and schools dedicated to teaching our students properly to become productive?
“What about our state authorities like the Department of Social Welfare if they are doing their jobs to help families, single parents, orphans, widows, broken families, divorcees and so on so that children grow up in happy homes?
“Do our law enforcement bodies adequately carry out their duties diligently to arrest and prosecute law breakers, including child abusers, wife beaters, and other illegal practices? Are our judges just and fair and true in their adjudication of justice?
“Whilst the looting has destroyed the economy and innocent businesses, it also brings to surface some fundamental flaws in our individual lives too as the majority of the youth population we see today reflects us the adults and the multiple authorities who are responsible for moulding and shaping their character.
“The deaths due to the violence and arson were cold-blooded murders. The blood of all the deceased is spilled on the hands of all who are careless, irresponsible, greedy, deceivers, liars, selfish, wicked strategists, pretenders, perpetrators and all responsible who failed to do the right and correct thing in life as well as confined to this situation.
Let me illustrate this way: If you are an irresponsible parent, you are responsible for allowing your child to grow up undisciplined. If you are a pastor who uses religion for pursuing money and wealth, you are responsible for a lack of indoctrinating moral character in the youth. If you are a police man, who gets bribery for doing your job, then you did what you did, and thus, you caused the consequence.
“If you are a court judge who adjudicated justice poorly, then, of course, what did you expect, a just society? Definitely not. If you are a member of national, provincial, or LLG Parliament/Assembly who serves self in the convenient disguise of serving the people, did one not know that such a situation would arise?
“See the Point here is that the so-called “black Wednesday” explosion was a culmination of many negligence and overlooks, complacent, mediocre, failure by state bodies and the negative energy that have been ballooning over many years of this nation.
“It is easy to blame, it does not dawn on one to admit responsibility or liability easily. Let me open all tour eyes that we all, all of us do have a share of the blame of the violence, looting or death by our actions or inaction when moral duty calls us individually to do the right against the wrong!
“The loss of business, economy, and cash flow by the “black Wednesday” situation is so stupid, blind, and an act of a people living in darkness. Why did business owners, shop owners, and merchandise have to suffer when they were the backbone of the nation’s sustenance.? What was the logic? What an embarrassing, barbaric, and stupid act that was? Unjustified and foolish it was!
“It was like the scorpion who was riding on the back of the frog across the river, biting the frog only to drown with the frog that was saving him. It was the venom in the scorpion that motivated the poisonous bite that killed not just its victim but itself too.
“The youths of our society are growing up with the venom we as a people are responsible for. We must reassess ourselves by every aspect and correct this nation from the way we are cultured!
“It is unfortunate to tie the black Wednesday to the VONC period that starts in February in the PNG Parliamentary life cycle, but a decent view is very strong in that direction of observation,” Polye said.