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The New Government has been urged to consider creating a Special Parliamentary Committee on Elections, to oversee some roles of the Electoral Commission. East Sepik Governor East Sepik Governor, Allan Bird says that the provinces should also apply to the Supreme Court to remove the functions of Electoral roll updates from the Electoral Commission and take it to the provinces. Mr. Bird said this on NBC National Radio, following reports of voters in some districts of East Sepik Province being denied their democratic right to cast votes due to a shortage of Ballot papers. Governor Bird reiterates, Electoral Commission is a massive failure in the country and appointing a new Electoral Commissioner would not fix anything,. He says that there is a need for structural change to rectify this problem. NBC News / PNG Today Next :  PNG Elections : Security Forces Move into Enga Province

Commentary by Petrus GAND   I am not sure if anyone else is seeing what I am seeing?  Struggling, hustling, improvising and strategizing amid this ethnically diverged society [in Papua New Guinea] has brought us no good. Troublesome, chaos, destruction and vengeance appear to be our way of reacting to issues. And it grows insanely nasty isn’t it?  Clumsy our systems are that they have strangled our progress. Which is why harmony is unlikely to be the kind of state we would aim for in the decades to come.   It is very simple to manage an entity that has many liquid assets because it will back you up in the business world where market security is of high regard. And for a country, we have a trillion-worth of resources to support us. But it is quite confusing when our leaders who enter parliament happen to lose their compass and go off-track effortlessly.  This is where personal greed overrules. And it is evil. Evil greed. Anyhow, I’d never seen an MP in one of our human cages for culprit