Blame MVIL for Kunai Street demise

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The National,Tuesday17 January 2012

I REFER to the picture story on page 2 of your Jan 12 edition and wish to advise the residents and tenants of Kunai Street to direct their anger and frustration at the resident at the end of their street, Motor Vehicle Insurance Ltd.
Every year MVIL raise millions of kina from motorists in Port Moresby from vehicle registrations and driving licences.
Yet they hardly give anything back to the motorist of Port Moresby.
Instead, they are investing in real estate and in some shadowy deals with a bank in Australia worth millions of kina.
Does this company have any social and moral responsibility at all?
Is it too much to ask them to fund the resealing of Kunai Street?
After all, their clients use this road when they come to pay them fees every day.
NCDC has resealed Frangipani Street which connects Kunai Street to Wards Road.
We are ready to reseal Kunai Street if MVIL could at least recognise its social and moral responsibility by allocating some money to support our endeavour to provide quality roads to the very people who keep them going year in year out.
Is it too much to ask or would they rather give K90 million freely to a bank in Australia or in real estate development here and elsewhere?
I hope the residents of Kunai Street will raise the same concern and direct their legitimate grievance at MVIL which is on their street.

Powes Parkop
Governor NC
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