MP urges villagers to value services worth over K5mil

HUON Gulf MP Ross Seymour has urged Mare villagers in Wampar to value services worth K5.5 million they have benefited from the district development authority and to make use of them.
More than 2,500 people live in Mare and Seymour told them that their bridge construction cost K3.5 million with K1.5 million road construction machines and K500,000 road maintenance work.
He spoke during a dedication ceremony of a newly-purchased excavator and a bulldozer for road construction in the district.
“These machines were intentionally purchased to maintain the existing roads while constructing new road links into interior Salamaua villages,” he said.
“It is appropriate to dedicate the equipment before construction phase based on district road construction programme plan beginning with road upgrading and construction of a deteriorated section from Mare linking the main Bulolo Highway to be followed by Salamaua and in Morobe,” Seymour said. He urged the 27 wards in Ngaeng-Wampar to realise the fact of expending K10 million district services improvement funds that come in drips.
“Wampars have benefited so much and we have hinterland parts of Salamaua and Morobe yet to benefit from such basics which some have delivered and others pending,” he said.
Seymour said after Mare councillor Joe Bingem and elder Kora Giwisa raised issues of incomplete projects in water, clinic, elementary school, flooding, sawmill, rural electrification and extension of road from Mare to Sangkiang, Marasangan and eventually Tsiatz.
Wanga said that it took more time to deliver basic services determined by funding availability to fulfil project plans.
“However, Seymour and the district authority always consider critical needs in LLGs before delivering and we have projects in Salamaua and Morobe yet to be fulfilled,” Wanga said.