K2.5m for Tsak roads

By GIBSON TORASO
UPNG journalism student
KANDEP Member and  Minister for Finance and Treasury, Don Polye, has given K2.5 million to the people
of Tsak in Wapenamanda electorate, Enga, to upgrade deteriorating road conditions in the area.
Polye made the payment after a plea by the people of Tsak in the media for their local MP, Miki Kaeok, to fix the deteriorating road from Mukurumanda to Tsak.
Polye announced the funding during the official opening of a 20,000-capacity worship centre for the Nations Reformations Ministry Churches Network (NRMCN) at Tsak last Thursday.
He said the money would be made available through the church account.
“The church will manage this money to upgrade the road and look at other relevant services that need attention,” Polye said.
“I am urging the people of Tsak to cooperate with the church to implement and deliver
services with this funding.”
University of Papua New Guinea’s Wapenamanda Students Association chairman Albert Kamani thanked Polye for answering the people’s plea.
He said Polye had made a good decision to give the money to the church so it could deliver worthwhile services in the sub district.
“Through the churches can Tsak see changes and developments and the minister’s approach is the way forward for us to see real developments,” he said.
He said the district administration had failed them and people no longer trusted the district administration.
Kamani said his association would go ahead with an election awareness campaign by the end of the month despite a lack of support from the Electoral Commission.
NRMCN president Dian Warep urged the people living along the Mukurumanda to Tsak road not to claim compensation for land used in the road maintenance work.