Wednesday, 15 July 2015
WHY SOMARE LEAD PNG TO INDEPENDENCE
There’s always somewhere in a journey, that we’d stop and ask ourselves why we chose one path instead of the other?
The following were the exact words from one of the founding fathers of Papua New Guinea, Sir Michael Thomas Somare.
He spoke during a Mamose Governors conference in Madang last year;
He told the deputy Prime Minister, Sir Leo Dion;
“ Sampla samting mipla wokim bipo ya, mipla hariap. Yu save, mipla sampla long politiks tu mipla ting osem mipla laik kisim independence na mipla bai bosim mipla yet. Bikos mipla bilip long ol pipol blong mipla, Papua New Guinea. Mi laikim ol yet long bosim giraun blong ol, mani blong ol, haus blong ol, olgeta samting blong ol…na mi guria long displa na mi hariapim planti samting.
Na mi no les long admitim. Ating tuple brata blong mi (Pias Wingti and Julius Chan) ating bai tuple sem ya… bai ol nonap kamapim displa tok. Mi? wai bai mi aitim displa tok? Mistake mi wokim, mi mas tok aut.
Taim ol tokim mi long 1968, Sir Hugh Foot, blo United Nations, Tokim mi, yu nonap kisim Indipendens blong Papua New Guinea…mi bin tokim em, yu bai mi provim long yu taim mi go long politiks, bai mi mekim independence blong displa kantri. Na mi mekim kamap…ol tok 50 yias, mi kisim indipendens insait long seven yias”.
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