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Mekere opens ablution block
By ELIZABETH MIAE
RESIDENTS of the Four Mile Works
Compound will now have access to a better and proper ablution
block.
The ablution block has seven toilets for women, three for men and
a shower room. It was officially opened on Tuesday by Moresby
North West MP Sir Mekere Morauta.
The ablution block was funded by Sir Mekere under the Moresby
North West Water Improvement Programme at a cost of K12,000.
It will cater for about 4,000 people in the area including people
residing at Garden Hill, the Down Wire Settlement and the works
apprentice quarters.
People living at the compound have been using the run-down
ablution block for four years.
Community leader Aba Bina thanked Sir Mekere for the initiative
and appealed to his people to take care of the newly maintained
block.
A local contractor was contracted to maintain the ablution block
with the help of youths in the area.
“It’s my duty to help you as the sitting member. Vote for a good
leader. Vote not only for yourselves but for your children as
well. If you vote corrupt leaders, you will suffer,” Sir Mekere
told people that had gathered for the opening.
During the gathering, Maria Ovia, who claims to be representing
women in the area, made a request to Sir Mekere for an elementary
school to be set up in the area, and also for septic toilets to be
built at their local Seventh-Day Adventist church.
Mrs Ovia described the hardships by their children in having to
travel far just to be educated.
Sir Mekere told her to put the request on paper for him to bring
it before the National Capital District Commission for
consideration.
In another event, Sir Mekere visited the bore water project site
at Morata Four.
The project is jointly funded by JICA and Sir Mekere at a cost of
K41,000.
The two tanks, which are under construction, will hold 30,000l
respectively and will supply water to more than 5,000 people in
the area.
Chairman of the project Kara Kirona said the people in the area
were facing water problems for a very long time.
They were fetching water from a well dug by Eda Ranu for use all
this time.
 
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