Develop good ethics, ENB Deputy PA tells students

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ENB Deputy Provincial Administrator Mr Levi Mano.
IN the pursuit of academic excellence, it is important that students also develop good morals or ethics and integrity.
East New Britain Provincial Deputy Administrator Levi Mano made the remarks during the University’s 2020 Student Orientation Welcome Program on Monday (Feb 24). He was the guest speaker.
Mr Mano said PNG has evolved over the last 40 years, but although it has all the natural resources it has not fully developed because people lack concentration, focus and discipline in life. 
“I hope those are learning curves for our students. Apart from academic programs, you must try your best to acquire the intangible features of development maybe our institutions and education system has forgotten for the last 30 years. 
“There are reforms in all government sectors; education, health and more reforms are currently taking place but what are those infrastructures in relation to the life of man? What we see now is a physical manifestation of the intangible things that we don’t see in life of people and the intangible is the values and ethics.
They go together with the academic performance to live a meaningful life in your own community,” he said.
Mr Mano said academic institutions in the country, should assess the situation and find what has gone wrong in the country. 
“We need to go back to the intangible feature of development, which is the value, the ethics and the moral standing in your community. You put (them) together with your academic excellence we can change this world into paradise if only we get the equation right. Then you become good parents and your kids will be the one who will transform your province and the country as a whole,” he said.
“I’d like you to hunt for personal power within you. It is not derived from position but you being a good person, doing the right thing. Our problem is we keep on choosing the wrong things and the whole community is always silent about that.”
He urged students to be creators of their own enterprises, where going to work daily in the cocoa blocks is like going to a normal paid job.
He said leadership is not about position, but the way one influences people and encouraged students to do their best.
Apart from this, Mr Mano also said the Provincial Government stands committed to assist the University in its infrastructural development.

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