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Iambakey Okuk
Iambakey Palma Okuk (5 May 1945 – 14 November 1986) was an independence leader in Papua New Guinea and served as Deputy Prime Minister, the nation's first Minister for Agriculture and Fisheries, and repeatedly in the capacity of Minister of Transport, Minister of Primary Industries and Opposition Leader. He is known as Papua New Guinea's "most colourful and controversial politician". Okuk first led protests against unfair labor practices, and then once elected to office, worked to reserve sectors of the economy for citizens as a method of returning a complex economic role to Papua New Guineans. In the post-independence decade, Okuk built a coalition of minority political factions which forced a successful change of government, in which he became Deputy Prime Minister. Early life, education, and labour protest Okuk was born in Simbu Province in the Central Highlands of the Territory of New Guinea in 1945. He spent eighteen years in the area around Hagen, learned the loca ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ebia Olewale
Sir Ebia Olewale (1940–2009) was a politician in Papua New Guinea (PNG). He was elected as a member of the House of Assembly of Papua and New Guinea in 1968 and went on to hold several ministerial positions during the period of self-governance and after PNG's independence in 1975, including that of deputy prime minister. He was knighted in 1983 and served as chancellor of the University of Goroka from 2000 to 2006. From 2002 until his death, he was a director of the Papua New Guinea Sustainable Development Program. Early life and education Niwia Ebia Olewale was born on 21 February 1940 in Ture Ture, a village not far from the administrative centre of Daru in what is now the Western Province (Papua New Guinea), Western Province of Papua New Guinea. His mother was one of the few people in the area at the time to have waged employment. He studied at a London Missionary Society school from 1949 to 1952, and then moved to a school in Daru, from 1952 to 1957. He then transferred to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |