Locals build own road, appeal for bridge

A COMMUNITY in Imbonggu, Southern Highlands, building its own road, need a steel bridge and is seeking help to get it.
It is hoping a company or an organisation can donate one.
More than 700 people from Kopri village in Kou ward two worked on the road and contributed gravel.
Locals have constructed 2km of the road themselves and the road is near completion, spokesman Nelson Norum said.
Norum said they now needed a steel-frame bridge which would cost about K20,000 that would include cement, timber and labour.
“We are exhausted, we did our best to have the road established,” he said.
“We cannot continue to wait for the government to do everything for us, we made several appeals for help but it was not heard.
“We had a community meeting and decided to building the road ourselves when complaints to government offices and pleas to politicians repeatedly failed,” he said.
Norum said everyone agreed that the road would not benefit politicians and bureaucrats “so we had to do it ourselves”.