3 Apr 2003

Solomons opposition MP says government is dysfunctional

10:24 am on 3 April 2003

A Solomon Islands Opposition MP has issued a warning to the United Nations Development Programme over the help it is giving the Government in drawing up an Economic Recovery and Development Plan.

Alfred Sasako has praised the UNDP's initiative but says the Government will not be able to implement the plan because it is dysfunctional.

He says this is shown by the Government's inability to come up with a single policy document to sell to aid donors in the 15 months it has held power.

"So really, in my view, what it is going to boil down to is that they will leave everything to the UNDP in the hope that the UNDP, having put the document together, will also implement it for them."