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We Say
Juffa
stands
his
ground
Vocal governor an example to all
THE Pacific need more legislators like the construction of a provincial drug by the fact that the nurse was paid for
Gary Juffa, Governor of Oro Province in storage facility in his province at the five years while not doing any work for
Northern Papua New Guinea. cost of around $AUD217,000. the Health Ministry.
He is a one-man army fighting to rid This facility – basically a warehouse PNG’s central government paid up-
his country of the scourge of corruption – has not been completed because the front for the drug storage facility which
which has deep roots and threatens to contractor was a local nurse with no is meant to house medicines and equip-
destroy the country from within. knowledge of building or carpentry. ment for distribution to small, remote
Juffa’s latest action has been to expose The situation has been compounded centres.
l We Say is compiled with the oversight of the editor.
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