The opportunity to vote freely and fairly in the upcoming National General Elections must be given to the people unlike what was experienced in past instances.
Enga Governor Sir Peter Ipatas said for this to happen, this government needs to seriously address the security issue surrounding the national elections.
“In this parliament, we said to give the opportunity to women to vote freely, how do we ensure that happens when we cannot control the law-and-order issues faced during elections?” Sir Peter asked.
“Over many years now, we have observed that many elections are not properly held and successive governments have failed time and again to fix these election related issues.”
“Some of us sitting here are responsible for corrupting the elections and we cannot continue to sit here and do nothing about it.”
Sir Peter called on Prime Minister James Marape to admit the fact that PNG lacked the security force capacity to carry election operations and to seek external help wherever possible.