Leaders agree to fight crime

ALL 47 members of the Morobe provincial assembly will do all they can to stop the lawlessness at Lae’s busy shopping centre, Eriku.
The members agreed at the Tutumang that they would fund the operations of the security company, Morobe Menyamya Security Service (MMSS), now policing the streets of the shopping mall and bus stops.
No figure has been set yet but Bulolo MP Sam Basil proposed that all MPs should contribute K200,000.
They also suggested that all the nine districts form a security unit to help the MMSS.
 The security guards would be equipped with two-way radios, knives and bows and arrows, from the funding.
Morobe Governor Luther Wenge said the stand was being taken because the national government and the police were not helping.
“Police are going in their uniforms we bought, in the cars we bought, fuel we bought, guns we bought and not walking the streets where the crime is.
“We need people like MMSS who are walking the streets to bring down lawlessness and restore peace and good order.”