Former research boss criticizes govt performance

Former boss of the National Research Institute (NRI) Dr Thomas Webster says the national government must focus on delivering basic services to its people rather than complicating service delivery with the different arms of government.

“Government needs to be goal focused (in delivering basic services like health, education and infrastructure) because I don’t think they are,”  he says.

Dr Webster, who spent 11 years as a researcher at the country’s think tank institute, said the government must look at delivering basic needs of primary health care, good basic education and good roads and bridges.

“The country’s literacy is at 50 percent compared to the rest of the Pacific which stands above 80 percent and the health standard is very poor.”

Meanwhile, in an independent research carried out by NRI titled ‘political governance and service delivery in PNG’ came to a conclusion that the decline in service delivery is not related to the country’s system of governance.

Author: 
Charles Yapumi