A good number of government MPs are reportedly ready to resign and support the motion of no confidence against PM Manele filed by MP for Central Honiara Gordon Darcy Lilo.

Sources close to the matter told Island Sun last night on condition of anonymity that the government MPs are reportedly not happy with a number of government undertakings that are not of national interest.

These include:

-Gross mismanagement of mineral sector, prioritising special interests over national interest.

-Level of tax exemptions given, which have put a big hole in the budget with no strategy to fill in the big deficit in the budget.

The government MPs planning to resign are the ones who have been concerned for sometime, the sources said.

But they recognise the importance of this budget being one for the people of the country, and will support its passage, the sources said.

The government MPs appeal to public to understand that the ones behind this move put the interest of the country first and the people they represent, the sources said.

“No hidden motives or agenda.”

Prime Minister Jeremiah Manele is facing a motion of no confidence which was filed by MP Darcy Lilo on Thursday last week, and will be ready for tabling this Friday.

An Opposition spokesperson told Island Sun over the weekend that reasons for the motion included:

-PM Manele’s lack of action over his finance minister’s exposed squandering of tax ex-emptions costing government hundreds of millions of dollars in revenue

-PM Manele’s lack of action to address the huge loss of revenue from the mining operation on Ren-nell island, Renbel province

-PM Manele’s lack of action regarding exposed offshore account linked to his finance minister and police minister

-The country’s dwindling economy under the leadership of PM Manele, an example highlighted be-ing the budget currently in parliament reportedly just being on paper with no revenue to back it.

PM Manele in an interview with Island Sun on Sunday had said his Government for National Unity and Transformation (GNUT) was rock solid and united, and welcomed the motion.

He said that they were instead focused on passing the budget.

Both PM Manele and Mr Darcy Lilo could not be reached for comment before the paper went to print last night.

Meanwhile, the mover of the motion, Mr Darcy Lilo is a former prime minister (2011-2014).