By ALOYSIUS LAUKAI
THE people of Ioro 1 and Ioro 2 in the heart of Panguna have buried their differences and decided to form one Panguna district administration to serve its people for the first time in 18 years.
This resulted in the signing of the Panguna Communique between the Me’ekamui unity government and Autonomous Bougainville Government at the Panguna Oval last Thursday.
The ceremony was witnessed by a United Nations representative, UNDP programme coordinator on Bougainville Howard Wilson, acting chief administrator for Bougainville Raymond Masono and the chief executive officer for Kokopau district Tony Tsora.
The event started with a reconciliation ceremony during a mass served by Panguna’s priest Fr Mathew Pisi.
The ceremony was to mark the reconciliation between Panguna leaders and people who were on the ABG side, who were headed by ABG member for Ioro Dr Benedict Pisi, and Panguna leaders and people currently on the Mekamui side led by Philip Takaun and Philip Miriori.
After the reconciliation ceremony, the group was led by a singsing group to the oval where a flag raising ceremony was held, followed by speeches and the signing of the memorandum of understanding (MoA).
Fr Pisi called on the people to change their attitude and work as partners to develop Panguna.

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