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Komo-Magarima gets development boost
By
PAULUS KOMBEA
THE resource rich remote Komo-Magarima electorate in the Southern Highlands Province will come to light in terms of the restoration of the tangible government services and the reviving of the road and other viable infrastructure and service developments. This will become reality in a short while as the local MP Francis Potape over the weekend delivered more than K10 million cheques to various local contractors. The cheque deliveries were done without any ceremony; the MP has instead opted to celebrate at the completion of projects in 2012 when the "game of elections begins." While presenting the cheques he told more than 4000 crowd that even though the electorate is rich with the hydro-carbon resources no tangible changes have been achieved by the past regime and he would try his very best to deliver what he can. Mr. Potape urged all the candidates who contested the seat to back him and establish services with the royalties, MOA funds and the equities so all can work for one common good to service the people rather being paper landowners and misusing the people's money.. Mr. Potape made available cheques of K2.7 million to the Mananda Umbrella Joint Venture (UJV) company to build 10 police houses at Komo government station while another K2.7 million was given to Pesaps Trading Ltd for the construction of the Magarima police houses and another K200, 000 was given to the Guane Construction Ltd to build the police administration block and the cell black in Komo. A K1.5 million kina cheque for the Komo station airstrip maintenance and the road upgrading was delivered to the Hides landowner company Tokaju Construction Ltd. He presented K30 000 cash payment to the people of Tapale-Wabia in the Upper Wage LLG area in Magarima for clearing the land for the new proposed vegetable market establishment while a K20 000 to the people of Yambaraga for cleaning the Lower Wage LLG council chamber and a K5000 to the Ipuwaka Disable Center making it the first of its kind in the Province. A sum of K200, 000 was allocated for local labor on the Hiri-Lai road which connects Mendi from the rest of the Hela districts as an emergency exist to make travel easy for the people on the notorious Nipa section of the highway. Mr. Potape allocated another K200,000 for local labor on the ring roads from Ume, Padolake and Yongole villages of Upper Wage to convert the foot tracks into ring roads where now four wheel drive vehicles can travel; and K150 000 was allocated for the Yambaraga-Kene-Wapulaka and Yongale villages in the Lower Wage for work on the construction of the ring roads. Yongale ward councilor since independence Chief Mara thanked Mr. Potape for spearheading the projects in the areas where he did not gain a single vote in the elections including the recent by-election. Also at the weekend, Mr Potape visited the recently launched K2 million road project to connect Magarima to Kandep in Enga province. The project is undertaken Carson Pratt Services. |
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