Opposition questions the return of Kuma to Prime Minister Wale’s Cabinet amid political uncertainty and leadership concerns.
The Official Opposition says the reappointment of Harry Kuma to Cabinet only days after his resignation exposes the extraordinary political confusion now engulfing Prime Minister Matthew Wale’s GREAT Coalition.
Kuma was sworn in again at Government House today, just days after resigning from the same Government.
The Opposition said GREAT has now reached the point where it is recycling its own members as Prime Minister Wale struggles to keep his coalition together ahead of Monday’s Motion of No Confidence.
Solomon Islanders have watched ministers resign, resignations accepted, portfolios changed and now a resigned minister sworn back into Government within days.
This is becoming a revolving door, not a demonstration of stable government.
The Opposition said the situation would almost be laughable if the consequences for the country were not so serious.
Prime Minister Wale leads a Government that constantly speaks about good governance, accountability, stability and principled leadership.
Yet the political spectacle unfolding within GREAT tells a very different story.
A Government that cannot keep its own house in order cannot lecture the country about good leadership or good governance.
The instability GREAT is experiencing is not being manufactured by the Opposition. It is coming from within GREAT itself.
The Prime Minister should therefore stop blaming others for the political difficulties facing his Government and take responsibility for the divisions within his own coalition.
The Opposition said the reappointment of Hon. Kuma also makes GREAT’s attacks on others as political opportunists increasingly hollow.
GREAT cannot condemn political manoeuvring when it threatens the Prime Minister and embrace it when it helps him survive.
If GREAT wants to talk about political opportunism, it should first look in the mirror.
Cabinet appointments are not political lifelines to be handed out, withdrawn and handed back as parliamentary numbers change. They are positions of national responsibility.
The Opposition warned that rearranging Cabinet and securing political commitments may temporarily settle the numbers, but it will not resolve the underlying leadership problems within GREAT.
Instability will continue unless Prime Minister Wale changes his leadership style.
Promises and political assurances may hold a coalition together for a time, but when those promises are not fulfilled, the same divisions will surface again.
Stability is not built on promises. It is built on leadership, trust, consultation and the ability to hold a Government together.
Without those foundations, today’s political solution is a band aid treatment to a deeper persisting problem – leadership.
Opposition Press Release
