Dear Editor – People with the right mindset should fully support the removal of RCDF from the nation’s leadership if the nation wants to move forward with its development aspirations.
The current members of parliament and the DCC government led by Prime Minister Sogavare should have listened and accepted this decision because the way in which RCDF is handled can be seen as a major catalyst that stimulated and create the national leadership crisis experienced today.
It denies the majority populace accessing better service deliveries and improved livelihood.
The current members of parliament should stop opposing and denying the recent TSI site assessment report on RCDF from the different constituencies in the nation because what has been stated in the report tells the truth about the usage of RCDF.
It is best the government should handle the fund the other way around to benefit the nation.
While the billions of dollars are poured into the RCDF within the administrations of our 50 MPs for the past 14 years, it has not made much positive impact towards the livelihood of the people.
Instead most MPs become millionaire overnight and the experience with the government instabilities due to political games happening during election process become common that greatly affect the nation.
The earning activities and making a quality living in the rural areas become a huge problem in our nation because people suffered so much due to lack of important social and economic infrastructures such as lack of water supply and proper toilet facilities, bad state and non-construction of new roads, poor accommodation within rural clinics medical services, non-construction of any hydro power that generates power to boost development.
There are also lack of market facilities and buying arrangement in rural areas providing market outlets for important export commodities such as timbers, copra, cocoa and sea resources, non-establishment of any sustainable commercial companies that deal with agricultural and fishery products in the rural areas that provide job opportunities for the people in rural areas and the list goes on.
It is time our leadership should learn from the Japanese aid funding that gears towards worthy and sustainable development such as construction of our road and bridges experience today in Honiara that will uplift the status and benefit every single human being living in Honiara.
And that’s what the nation expects from the aid money that comes into the country.
Thank you Japanese Government for your great assistance with the construction of such infrastructure because you can be able to see the vital needs of this tiny developing nation.
Jacob Ofasia Savaleni
Honiara
