ENB plans to roll out censorship programme

The National Education

By ROSELYN ELLISON
EAST New Britain (ENB) will be second province besides the National Capital District (NCD) to roll out the implementation of the censorship ambassador school programme.
The programme was hosted at Kokopo technical secondary school with three schools participating which include Malaguna Technical, Our Lady of Sacred Heart (OLSH) Girls and Kokopo Technical secondary schools.
ENB Governor Michael Marum, who is the ambassador of the censorship ambassador school Programme in the country, shared with the 48 students who participated in the programme about his career and how he became a rugby league player, then a league coach and then a governor.
Marum, from Matalau in Rabaul, started his primary school in Nordup, attended Boisen SS and after completing his secondary education, went to Port Moresby.
Without a job, he roamed the streets that got himself into all sorts of troubles.
“Living in a settlement in Port Moresby was tough,” he said.
“I met up with some good friends and eventually we started talking about rugby football league and that’s where I became involved and took part in the game.”
From Intercity Cup Vipers, Marum was selected into the Kumuls and later became captain.
He played 52 games for the country and had travelled the world.
When he retired from the Kumuls, he returned to Rabaul and became Rabaul Agmark Guria’s coach and, later, PNG Hunters coach.
“Rugby league changed my life through the friends I met and things that I have learnt through them,” he said.
Marum said when he started playing at the international level, he respected the opposition teams, his coach, playmates and everyone, even the outcome of the games.
He told the students he hoped his story would be a lesson they could learn from and try to become good citizens of ENB and the country.
Sixteen students from each of the three selected schools were being trained as censorship ambassadors on core values of censorship which included professionalism, integrity, service, commitment, ethics and gender, equality and social inclusion which they would apply in their schools, families and communities as ambassadors.