Arrival of machines marks start of work

ROAD accessibility remains crucial and is fundamental to ensure other services such as health, education and economic opportunities reaches the people, Sohe MP Henry Amuli says.
Amuli said these when announcing the arrival of first lot of earthmoving machineries purchased by the Sohe Development Authority (SDDA) from China to Port Moresby on Friday.
Amuli said Sohe has four local level governments (LLGs) – Kokoda, Higaturu, Kira and Tamata – but two of the LLGs (Kira and Tamata) were not connected by roads.
“Kira and Tamata have no road accessibility and it is very sad and heartbreaking to see how our people will have to travel long distances to access basic services.”
Kira and Tamata LLGs have a combined population of 25,000-plus people.
He said the DDA was thankful to the Government for allocating K5 million to Sohe under the Public Investment Programme.
“With that funding support, our DDA has passed a resolution to build our district works unit to take care of our district roads under,” he said.
“The machineries are bought under our ‘Connect Sohe programme’ and will be registered under Sohe Development Corporation.”