Each pillar reflects positions Hon. Namah has stated on the record or projects he actively backs. Supporting references appear with every entry. Tap a pillar to read more.
Hon. Namah has publicly advocated free universal education as a national goal since his time as Deputy Prime Minister. That commitment now has a concrete anchor in the Vanimo 2040 plan, which sets aside a dedicated University & Medical City and technical academies within the Free Trade Zone.
The aim is to build human capacity locally — so young people from Sandaun and beyond can train close to home for the industries the coastal economy is designed to create.
Alongside education, Namah has called for free universal healthcare. For a border electorate this is also a service-delivery question: a significant share of some border communities have crossed into Indonesia in search of care, and his community programmes have been framed around reversing that flow.
The Vanimo 2040 plan proposes a Medical City to serve the province and anchor a regional health economy.
Namah has repeatedly raised the problem of local produce — gold, vanilla, cocoa and marine goods — crossing the border for a fraction of its value. His answer has been to build formal border trade infrastructure that captures fair value at home, starting with district-funded market projects taken to the national level.
The FTZ plan adds an agroforestry and rural development zone to scale smallholder production and processing.
A recurring theme in Namah's community work is investing in young people and steering them away from idleness and illegal activity. His office has paired direct youth funding with a challenge to participate meaningfully in district development.
At the national level he has spoken in support of PNG scientists — including those working on climate change — and the planned university and academies are positioned as long-term skills pipelines.
Namah's central economic argument is that PNG should move from an import-driven to an export-driven economy. The vehicle is the Vanimo Free Trade Zone and Special Economic Zone — a manufacturing and export hub aimed at the vast Asian market reachable through the Indonesian border.
He has tied this to the enablers that make it possible: reliable, affordable power (a K100 million hydro project for Vanimo-Green, and larger hydro potential in the province), water and port infrastructure.
As the current Minister for Tourism, Arts and Culture, Namah promotes Sandaun's beaches, reefs and cultural heritage as an economy in their own right. In 2025 he launched the province's first Miss Bird of Paradise pageant in fifty years, positioned as a platform to grow provincial tourism.
The approach aligns with PNG's national Tourism Sector Development Plan and its emphasis on eco-friendly, culturally grounded growth.
A master-planned coastal city designed to make the vision real by 2040.
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