Governor for Oro Gary Juffa has called on the Foreign Affairs Minister Rimbink Pato to immediately address the issue of maintaining PNGs foreign missions.
Juffa stated that he had been informed by reliable sources in several missions that they have not been paid for up to three fortnights.
He said that in the Solomon Islands water had been cut and power would soon follow.
Juffa further reiterated that it was totally embarrassing for the Pacific’s largest economy to be grandstanding at various international meetings and promoting APEC when it could not fund its international stations and was unable to fund its elections and free health and school fee policy.
He added that provinces were also struggling to cope with recent cuts to their internal revenue GST receipts.
“The country is truly in dire straits.”