Source:
The National, Monday 30th April 2012
JIWAKA needs a proper administrative and economic model before it becomes a province, Dr William Tongamp said.
The associate professor at Akita University, in Japan, said that would be done if educated people of the province went back and contributed ideas to develop it.
Tongamp said this during a get-together of educated Jiwaka elites in Port Moresby, last Friday.
He said Jiwaka could be like Japan which advanced quickly after World War II but only if it had the right model and people in place.
“The Japanese model is that they used knowledge to build their country,” he said.
Tongamp said the country had many politicians but no leaders who could see and understand things of the past and prepare it for the future.
Tongamp, who is contesting the Jiwaka regional seat, said if the model proved successful in Jiwaka, the government could adapt it to administer the country.
Tongamp said with the LNG project and other developments happening in the country, good leaders were needed to manage the benefits that would be derived from them.
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