By JAMES APA GUMUNO

A MAJOR review will be carried out to stop tribal fights in the country in this term of parliament, chairman of the Constitutional Reform and Development Committee Joe Mek Teine said yesterday.
Mr Teine said his committee would review laws relating to tribal fights and make some amendments to stop the fights completely.
Mr Teine, who also the parliamentary leader of the National Party and the Member for Kundiawa-Gembogl said that his committee would seriously look into the laws relating to tribal fights with the objective of making amendments.
He said that by late this year or early next year, officers would visit people in the rural areas, especially in the Highlands, to get their views on how best they could stop the tribal fights once and for all.
Mr Teine said that once they got all the views from the people, his committee would sit down and review the relevant laws to ensure that in future, people would be afraid of the law and the type of punishment they would receive if they were caught infringing the laws.
He said that when they make the review and tighten it up, it would help stop all tribal fights in the country especially in the Highlands region.
Mr Teine said they would make sure that peace and harmony prevailed in the country.
He said that when there was peace and harmony, Government services and development would easily reach the people.
Mr Teine said currently people were being deprived of vital Government services because of tribal fights.
He said tribal fights were a thing of the past and did not want to see it continue into the 21st century.

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