Aimo backs new Central Sepik province

AMBUNTI-Dreikikir MP Tony Aimo has backed the call from his colleague Maprik MP Gabriel Kapris for a separate Central Sepik province.
But he said the timing was not right because of the general election.
Aimo said a think-tank team from the Central Sepik region including Joshua Kalinoe, Dr Clement Malau and the Central Sepik elites should plan for the separate province.
He said the idea was first mooted during his University of Papua New Guinea days in the eighties.
“There were not many students from the Dreikikir area. The main reason for us to push for the agenda was that we felt marginalised,” he said.
“The key positions in the East Sepik provincial administration were taken up by other Sepiks so we started floating the idea of a Central Sepik.”
Aimo said to push the idea right now may be taken as a political agenda during this election period.