Caption: Joseph Lelang
By MATTHEW VARI
MEMBER for Kandrian-Gloucester and former National Planning Secretary Joseph Lelang made the reference to the plight of the PNG people in rural areas as not one that was based on monetary value but one of access to services.
His comments came in light of signing a K3.5 million MoA (Memorandum of Agreement) with the National Broadcasting Corporation to build communication towers owned and operated by his district government to bring badly needed telecommunication services.
Making reference to the signing of the United Nations Millennium Development Goals by the government to reduce poverty across the globe, he said that it was upon every MP to play their part to reducing the levels of each of the goals by 2015.
“In 1990 the national government through the Prime Minister signed the millennium development goals at the United Nations General Assembly in New York,” he said.
“In the signing member countries of the world agreed to achieve certain goals 2015 which is next year.”
“One of the goals is to do with the reduction of extreme poverty- which comes in many shapes, sizes, and forms- but the definition of poverty in this country is one of access problems.
He said that the people have no access to basic services like water, roads, telecommunications or radio services then that defines what poverty is about.
“When people don’t have access to education and health services those can be regarded as poverty.”
“As the local MP from KandrianGloster representing my people, we’ve decided to address this particular problem, because in my electorate there are large black spots where people cannot get access to communication signals despite the towers set up there.”
He said that communication is one of the biggest contribution to the national rating as people were not been reached or heard about development or the lack of it to be address effectively by the various government levels.
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