LLGs heads protest over funding cuts

 THE 19 local level government presidents in Madang are disappointed with the Government’s decision cut their funding allocation.

Ambenob LLG vice-president Belgam Siut said the Government should not have cut their allocation from K500,000 to K100,000.

He said it had affected their service to the people who they lived with every day.

Gama LLG president Elijah Kas said he could not understand why the Government then increased the allocations to district from K10 million to K15 million a year.

Kas said LLG presidents lived and walked among the rural people every day and understood what they wanted.

He said when they received K500,000 last year, they assisted  many schools, churches, aid posts and community programme.

“Some MPs will give but we don’t know about the others,” Siut said.

Astrolabe LLG president Amili Deide said the K100,000 for his LLG was tied to two primary schools for the upgrading of infrastructure to introduce Grade Nines next year.

“My LLGSIP funds are tied to the schools and I will not do any project this year because I will have nothing to work with,” Deide said. 

Siut alleged that MPs were scared of LLG presidents because they could challenge them in the 2017 general election.