Guns report yet to be tabled: Singirok

FORMER army commander (retired Brig-Gen) Jerry Singirok has raised concern on the delayed Guns Control report.
The report was concluded in 2005, comprising 244 recommendations.
Singirok was the chairman of the Guns Control Committee.
The report is sitting in Parliament, gathering dust and awaiting its tabling.
In March 2005, then prime minister Grand Chief Sir Michael Somare, commissioned and established the committee to investigate and recommend ways to remove illegal guns from the hands of citizens.
It took the committee five months to carry out nationwide consultations.
He told The National yesterday: “We came up with 244 recommendations and gave them to the government. To date, no government has taken this issue seriously.
“Guns are still being used everywhere,” Singirok said.
“The Guns Control report is still not being tabled; since 2005.
“We can talk about development but if we can’t make it safe, we don’t develop (as a nation).
“In the past 24 hours, families lost their fathers, brothers and cousins in Enga.
“As a nation, we walk away from the hard issues of armed violence that is slowly but systematically eating away at the very soul of our once peace-loving country.
“The nation must call for leaders who can take this issue of illegal guns seriously like right now,” Singirok said.