Onglo: All-weather roads should pave way for prosperity

**The freshly cut road between Gembogl in Chimbu and Asaro in Eastern Highlands constructed by Kuraglba Civil Works. – Picture courtesy of BRUCE MERIMBA**

LINKING three-quarters of Papua New Guinea’s rural population with all-weather roads should pave the way for economic growth and prosperity, Police Minister and Kundiawa-Gembogl MP William Onglo says.
He said he represented an electorate disadvantaged by unfavourable geographical features and had seen the need for road links to open up the way for the rural population.
Onglo said an agreement with Daulo MP Pogio Ghate and former Kundiawa-Gembogl MP Wagi Merimba, the managing director of Kuraglba Civil Works would help open up a new access road through Upper Asaro into the Kuraglba mountains and into the Pombermer area in Gembogl, Chimbu.
“The road will become an easy economical market route for farmers in Gembogl and Kwongi-Miruma in the Upper Asaro area,” Onglo said.
“It will open up markets for the people of the border area of Daulo and Kundiawa-Gembogl.”
Onglo thanked Ghate for providing a K500,000 counter funding to complete the road which Kuraglba Civil Works was building.