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New ABG Chief Secretary Sworn In

The Autonomous Bougainville Government President Chief Dr John Momis has issued a stern challenge to the new Chief Secretary, Joseph Nobetau who now takes up the mantle in revitalising Bougainville Public Service.

During the swearing in ceremony of Mr Nobetau today at the Bougainville Administrative Office Complex Momis charged Nobetau with energising the public service into an efficient entity that will carry out the ABG’s prerogatives as it moves towards the referendum for Bougainville’s political future.

“We have to energise ourselves and others through heroic ambition, there is no time to mess around we have to lift the bench mark of the performance of the Bougainville Public Service machinery,” President Momis said.

“I am calling on the new Chief Secretary and the Ministers of the ABG to energise the public service, to energise the government, the youths, the marginalised and those that are sitting on the fence and use all kinds of pretexts and excuses not to be part of the team,” Momis said.

President Momis also encouraged a collaborative approach by the ABG Ministries and Departments to ensure that service delivery to the people is efficient.

Momis said that there were so many positive things happening on Bougainville but the people are not being informed of what is happening and he encouraged the public service and government ministries to be more proactive in informing the people of these changes.

“Despite our frustrations the Bougainville Peace Agreement is a document that gives the people of Bougainville the right to determine their future,” he said.

“This will create the qualitative change that will engage every Bougainvillean and the leadership must be taken by the political and bureaucratic leaders so that the whole population will feel and know that they are part of this great communal collaborative leadership that will forge something best for future generations,” he added.

 The President thanked the outgoing Acting Chief Secretary Paul Kebori for holding office for the last eleven months during a time when the ABG had faced immense tribulations from the national government.

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