Morata’s plight

MORATA 1-4 is a sub-urban settlement with legal status meaning all homes are on properly surveyed and leased lands for settlement.
Year in year out, the roads that were built 14 years do not have any bitumen surface, resulting in deep potholes that vehicles will have to slowly manoeuvre and subsequent long traffic queue from Boreboa Primary School to Community Hall at Morata 1.
One daily scene when travelling into Morata is frequent road blocks by youths and asked for fee of K5 per vehicle as pothole patching fee.
Further down to Morata 4 is a community consisting of more than 6,000 residents whose daily struggle apart from making ends meet is to look for water.
This has been happening for the last 16 years, kids hanging on their mother’s backs on top of bilums filled with water containers fetched some five kilometers away from home at Morata 1.
Electricity connections to Morata 4 is also required, as the current three phase electricity supply line built by the community is not sufficient to meet the demand.
Finally, homes that are stretched along the swamp were some of the worst flooded areas resulting in deaths and loss of thousands of kina worth properties.
Morata is forever neglected, hence no political leaders’ presence or government agency presence to provide relief.
If it was in the US, the president would normally go down and assess the situation and provide comfort and relief.
In PNG, small attention to some areas, while most neglected even affected.
I plead, please, North West MP and NCD governor, if you have heart for your people I hope your eyes and ears will make you move the sooner the better.

Rongehe Mereho,
Morata 4 City