Caption: New Ireland Governor and former PM, Sir Julius Chan.
By MATTHEW VARI
Sunday, July 24, 2016 (Sunday Chronicle, PNG)
SENIOR politician and former Prime Minister Sir Julius Chan has expressed his confusion as to why the Government of the day is finding it difficult to run the country while preaching what he termed was “the gospel” of its success and that of Prime Minister Peter O’Neill.
Sir Julius was referring to comments made by Finance Minister James Marape who compared Mr O'Neill as the best prime minister the country has ever seen, and the struggles the government is making do with to maintain the country in the current economic environment.
“What you people are enjoying now are the hard work of those pioneers in those times,” Chan said.
“That is why when the finance minister started to preach the gospel of we know how hard it is”.
“I do not think he knows how hard it is. I had to crawl when he (Sir Michael Somare) was prime minister. I had to crawl to borrow money.”
“I had to crawl to Australia just to get K120 million for our independence budget and we survived 40 years of independence.”
He said with the resources available, the minister for finance was questioning the opposition on their awareness of the circumstances in the economy.
“To tell me whether we know the circumstances. I don’t know. I really don’t know why we can’t sustain now.”
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