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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:4.5pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From the Post-Courier today. Comments?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>J<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:0cm'><b><span style='font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>Simple
Kabui</span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:4.5pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>JOSEPH Kabui stopped taking his life-saving
medicine four months ago because he didn’t have the money to pay for it and
felt ashamed to ask for help.<br>
“Yu save sister blong mi, mi no man blong askim long samting sapos em I
concernim mi,’’ he told me in his last media interview on Friday afternoon
immediately after he arrived in Buka from his Manus trip.<br>
About 12 hours later, he collapsed from what is believed to have been a massive
heart attack and was dead before he could be rushed to the nearby Buka
Hospital.<br>
Late president Kabui, who could give me an interview at his Gateway because he
was either tired or tied up singled out to me from his Gateway room after
returning from the Manus Governor’s conference: “ringim mi tomoro (Friday) na
bai yumi stori.”<br>
Kabui, the villager, as he was described in numerous eulogies and tributes in a
State funeral in Port Moresby when asked why he did not want to get more
medicine supplies said he had a lot of faith and trust in a local brand of
water reputed to have healing powers and that he did not want to infringe the
Autonomous Bougainville Government funds for his own use.<br>
PC: “President, why yu no laik toksave long Masono olsem Administrator long
redim sampla moni blong yu long go long Mosbi tasol long December last year
long check up?<br>
Kabui: …mi gat planti wok long wokim, display taim mi sapos long go long check
up em mi bin stap long wanpla important miting wantaim olo lida blong yumi na
tu mi bin tied up long miting blong displa education subsidy blong ol
sumatin,ol pikinini bilong yumi.”<br>
PC: Taim marasin i pinis, why yu no laik kisim moa supply?<br>
Kabui: Sista blong mi, tru tumas mi wari tumas long planti wok long wokim na mi
no tingim tumas marasin. Yu save sister blong mi, marasin em traipla moni tumas
tu, na yu save mi no man blong askim long samting sapos em I concernim mi, so
mi bin save kisim tasol ol liklik antibiotics’’<br>
PC: SO as we speak, you sure need medicine president? Can I suggest we do a
fundraising for you?<br>
Kabui: thankyou, mi orait, review blong mi long Australia em long display mun,
maybe two weeks time (bai mi mas check wantim Townsville) tasol, mi mas lukluk
long painim sampla toea long kisim mi go, bikos last check up I costim mi
planti moni stret.”<br>
This was part of the last interview held with late President Kabui on Friday
(not Thursday as we published yesterday).</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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