Niningi opens bridge

ABOUT 5000 people from a village in Imbonggu district of Southern Highlands will no longer risk crossing two fast-flowing rivers with their bags of coffee and garden produce.
This is according to Imbonggu MP Pila Niningi who walked over a newly built footbridge at Kagul and declared it open.
Niningi yesterday said two footbridges were built at Kagul and Paunda at a cost of K390, 000.
He thanked Disaster Controller Dr Bill Hamblin for releasing disaster funds for the bridges.
Niningi said that as a student, he and people from his electorate used vines to build footbridges over the rivers.
He said the rivers claimed many lives when people tried to cross with their goods.
Paunda village chief Perai Nale was emotional when Niningi walked across the new bridges.
Nale, in his local language, said: “I’m now an old man about to go and I see something that people will benefit from in the long run.
“Many people lost their lives.
“The rivers carried them away.”