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Airport surprise for Ipatas
By PILA WASU
THEY call him “action man”, and so when Enga Governor Peter Ipatas flew
into Kimbe last Saturday, “action” was waiting for him on the Kimbe
airport tarmac.
Mr Ipatas’ growing popularity had attracted some eight different dance
groups and more than 2,000 people to the airport to greet him.
The founder of the People’s Party flew into the oil palm-rich province
last weekend for the launching of a provincial branch office and the
appointment of party executives.
A long convoy of private vehicles escorted the leader and his entourage
to the Kimbe Bayside Inn Hotel where, despite a heavy downpour, locals
danced and greeted him with the group chanting “trupla man ... trupla
man”.
Mr Ipatas, who clearly did not expect such a reception, gave an
impromptu address saying the “People’s Party belonged to the little
people”.
He said he would fight to bring much needed services to the rural
majority, who had been neglected for so long.
Mr Ipatas undertook to fight “greedy leaders”, who pursued their own
interests while in Parliament.
The prime minister aspirant said one did not need to be a rocket
scientist to be a prime minister.
“All you have to know is how to manage your people, your resources and
your time,” he said.
“I have done the more difficult political work.
“I have been a councillor, a council president and a governor.
“I have the qualification that the others (previous PMs) lacked.
“I have worked with and live with the people all my life. I know their
hurts, their jobs and their dreams.
“The ordinary people cannot go wrong by backing the People’s Party.”
Mr Ipatas urged people to register to be members of the party.
Membership is in three categories: K20-K999 brown card holders will be
for grassroots, K1,000-K9,999 green card holders will be for workers and
small business people and K10,000 to the sky is the limit blue card
holders will be reserved for corporate members.
 
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