President welcomes new members
As President of the Autonomous Bougainville Government I am pleased to welcome to our ranks the three new member-elects of the Bougainville House of Representatives.
The new Members for Taunita Teop Albert Toro, Member for Halia Gordon Batek and the Member for Kongara Steven Topesi, I congratulate you for having been given the mandate by your people to lead them in the ABG.
As leaders you have been chosen to lead and lead you must. Your leadership must be exemplified through your actions that must inculcate moral and ethical values and principles of social justice.
You must be humble and willing to serve, you must have empathy to understand your people, you must have integrity to lead your people and you must be courageous to stand up for their rights.
Your leadership must also be in respect to the guiding principles of democracy. Be reminded that in a democracy the just powers of government are based upon the consent of the governed.
I would like to remind you that your new role is that of a legislator, a law maker in the highest governing body on Bougainville.
You are obligated to serve your people and not to aggrandise yourselves.
Your election to the Bougainville House of Representatives comes at a very crucial and definitive period in Bougainville’s history; we are in fact creating history in itself.
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