Kabwum people warned

By HENZY YAKHAM
PEOPLE in the Kabwum district, Morobe province, have been warned to take extra precaution when travelling from one place to another during the current wet season.
Retired High Court judge and community leader Don Sawong said Kabwum district was a natural disaster prone region which had experienced big mud slips, heavy flooding of rivers and cold weather.
He issued the warning while expressing sympathy for the relatives of the six people buried in a massive landslide on Jan 8 at Worin near Sapmanga station.
Mr Sawong, who flew out of Kabwum last weekend on his way to Port Moresby on official Government-engaged work, said it had been raining heavily in the district during the past week and that would have been the most possible cause of the landslip.
He said: “Unless you’ve been to the area, you won’t understand the difficulties people go through in this very inaccessible and difficult terrain area.
“People literally struggle to make ends meet with no road access and the area has been neglected since the former Australian colonial administration days. It also lacks basic Government health, education and other services,” Mr Sawong said in Port Moresby.
“On behalf of my family, friends and other people from Kabwum area, I send our most sincere condolences to the relatives of the deceased in Worin and nearby villages.”
Mr Sawong is currently heading the Commission of Inquiry into the Pacific Balance Fund controversy which involved the former PNG Investment Corporation Fund.

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