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Authority urges care of lights
By YEHIURA HRIEHWAZI in Wewak
EAST Sepik Governor Peter Wararu Waranaka
has been unfairly criticised for not upgrading feeder roads, according
to his office in Wewak.
Responding to story and picture in The National on Tuesday of Sausia
villagers planting banana trees, sago palms and other fruit trees on the
impassable Sausia-Negrie-Yangoru road, his first secretary Joseph
Kiliawi said the governor had done so much in terms of physical
development when in office for two years compared to other leaders like
Bernard Hagoria who was MP for Yangoru-Sausia for five years.
Mr Hagoria - from Sausia - was MP for the electorate from 1997 to 2002
but was removed from office by a leadership tribunal soon after
re-election in 2002 for depositing public funds into his personal bank
account.
Mr Kiliawi explained that Governor Waranaka has purchased a bulldozer
and a grader using his sectoral and road improvement programme funds. A
dump truck and a canter truck with spare parts would be delivered soon.
All equipment would be managed by the division of Works in Wewak to
upgrade and maintain all feeder roads, including the
Sausia-Negrie-Yangoru road in the electorate.
He said the governor was also involved in providing mobile phone
services to rural areas of East Sepik with the Yangoru-Sausia electorate
switched on at 5.20pm on Wednesday.
In addition, Mr Waranaka’s provincial executive council last week
injected K500,000 seed money into the Rural Development Bank for an
agriculture development credit scheme for on-lending to village farmers.
The governor had also not forgotten women in his Yangoru-Sausia
electorate. From unused electoral funds of the Hagoria term of office,
he has placed K250,000 with the East Sepik Savings and Loan Society for
credit to women wanting to set up small sewing and baking ventures, Mr
Kiliawi said.
 
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