An independent candidate contesting the National Capital District (NCD) Regional seat is focused on prioritizing on improving people’s lives as his policy through a proper city planning mechanism that would lead to improved services.
The candidate, Mr. Ben Dangima who could be a hot favorite in this election, said what the city of Port Moresby needs is a leader who would focus on the bottom-up approach to development, and that means sorting out the issues and needs of the people in the city through better planning.
This is one thing he intends to bring in and make it work if he gets elected as governor in this 2022 National General Election.
“Our policy is a bottom-up policy, and our slogan is hope for the hopeless,” said Mr. Dangima.
He said the city has seen a lot of settlement issues, law and order issues and people just wanting to make a living but are unable to do so because of the challenges brought about by some laws and regulations that don’t favor citizens.
He added that his focus is to help the little people, the ones living in settlements, the homeless people, and the struggling small business owners and those wanting to get into small businesses.
“That’s why we want to have a proper town planning system in place,” he said.
That’s because to really address this, he said proper urban planning is key to it and proposes to make the necessary changes to have an effective and robust planning system in place that would improve health care, proper water and sanitation into the settlements, proper education systems to help those who did not make it in school and better strategies to support Small and Medium Enterprises (SME).
He further stated that with proper planning a lot of things will fall into place, the welfare of the people will be better addressed, that will then lead to better law and order situation in the city and SMEs to prosper and generate revenue and employment for the people in the city.
Meanwhile, Mr. Dangima went for his nomination at the Sir John Guise stadium yesterday (Thursday 19th May) at around 4pm along with a big group of his supporters in a convey of hired trucks and public transport buses that made their way to the venue.