Booze remains major cause of problems in Bulolo

 SINCE the ethnic clash last year between  the  Bubus and the Watuts in Bulolo, the Morobe governor  and  the  provincial executive council imposed a three-month fighting zone and liquor ban.
The national government also pledged K20 million for police mobile squad operations and investigations, as  well as the set-up of a peace and order working committee.
But nothing has eventuated.
The  police  mobile squads withdrew after three months, no arrests  were  made of instigators of  the  ethnic clash, no peace or resolution has been reached between the two warring parties and  worst  of  all, the  liquor ban  has been lifted.  The public now consume  homebrew openly.
Law-abiding citizens are fed-up with the constant verbal and physical harassment and mayhem caused by drunk hooligans that rule this town.
We have the right and freedom to move around and associate with other people in our daily businesses without fear of being oppressed or intimidated.
The government and its relevant authorities must make sure we are able to exercise these rights.
I  have  lived  here  all  my  life and  have  witnessed several ethnic clashes  in this town caused by drunkedness 
Almost all the people in this town will agree with me that the deaths that have ignited and fuelled  ethnic clashes here since 2010  were caused by people  consuming beer, liquor and homebrew freely in public places.
Save our town, authorities.
 

Harassed, Via email