Get a third opinion on spill: Juffa

Northern Governor Gary Juffa has called on the Government to sanction a third investigation by an independent source into the slurry spill incident in Basamuk Bay, Madang.
Juffa said the Government needed a third assessment of the situation in Basamuk to verify the two reports released so far.
“The slurry spill incident has caused the lives of many of our people and as leaders what are we doing about it?” he said.
“I’m proposing that we immediately sanction a third investigation from independent source.
“We can go to the Australia government or an independent reputable firm to conduct the assessment of the area so that we can be assured of something being done about this situation.”
Juffa said PNG needed to learn the hard lessons from Bougainville of the damage done.
“We are bearing the bill of that,” he said.
“We must learn the lessons so we do not repeat the mistakes made by those who went before us.
“We can bring the best people in the world in the short time and they could carry out an assessment immediately of the area and inform us.”
Juffa said the people were watching.
“Protect and promote PNG as long as we call ourselves leaders. I believe we ought to seriously consider shutting this mine down or at least suspending it until we find out for sure the state of this disaster and what it has done to our people,” Juffa said.