I am informed by senior government ministers that my phones have been illegally tapped.

I am told by reliable sources that various State institutions have been instructed to try find anything illegal on me and charge and arrest me.

All the apparatus of the State has been put on full alert to hunt down the most dangerous criminal in PNG. His name is Allan Bird.

This is not the country I was born into, this is not the country the founding fathers envisioned.

I have the best job in the world as Governor of East Sepik. I have many good people working in my province at all levels.

I support them and they do a great job. It’s not perfect, but they are trying and improving.

Unfortunately my high performing Provincial Police Commander just got demoted and transferred to Hela and my province no longer has a person in this office. Political punishment is already on foot.

So if my colleague leaders feel that I am incompetent and unfit for the job, I will happily go back to building my people of greater Sepik.

Or at least try to insulate my province from the nation's greater problems.

We still have to fix our power problems and find enough money to fix all our roads, schools and health services.

PNG has very serious challenges. Anyone who fixes these problems will be hated just like Sir Mekere Morauta was hated 25 years ago.

Doing what needs to be done is not pretty, but it has to be done. Someone has to be willing to do the hard things.

Many countries have problems, but not many countries have all those challenges at the same time. PNG does so right now.

The things the government is doing today do not give me any confidence that things are going to get better.

There are no strategic interventions. We are just managing crises every day and even then we are not managing them well. By all indicators PNG is a failing State.

What are the key indicators of a failing State?

Indicator No 1: Security Gap - A state that is unable to guarantee the safety and security of its citizens.

Indicator No 2: Capacity Gap - A state that is struggling to provide services to its people.

Indicator No 3: Legitimacy Gap - A state where the election of its leaders is called into question.

Indicator No 4: Poor Governance, Corruption and Nepotism.

Indicator No 5: Prolonged Economic Crisis.

Indicator No 6: Extreme Inequality.

Whoever becomes prime minister of our beautiful country must fix all of these challenges and do so quickly.

To all Marape and PANGU supporters, I am not the enemy: PNG has at least six enemies and I have listed some of them for you.

I hope you find the wisdom, the courage and the will to meet our six main enemies head on. Because this is what our country needs.