People want MP to present fund report

BOGIA MP John Hickey is under pressure from the people of his electorate to submit the District Services Improvement Programme  report to show how the money had been used.
Yawar local level government president, Peter Bariau said Hickey should have tabled the report during the public accounts committee hearing in Madang recently.
Hickey is chairman of the committee.
Bariau said Hickey was the only MP in Madang who did not submit his district’s report to the committee he chaired.
No comments could be obtained from Hickey on the matter.
Bariau said Hickey should not have chaired the committee because it was a conflict of interest on matters relating to the Madang provincial government administration as he was a member of the provincial executive council.
He said Hickey never attended the PEC meetings and it showed when he was asking questions he should known the answers to if he had been attending meetings.
Bariau said Hickey was picking on the lands office head and the Madang Cultural and Visitors Bureau.
“He was asking Micah Mer in charge of lands on an inventory,” he said. “He wanted the inventory simply for his own use.
“There are lands issues in town in which he has been selling at very high prices,” he said.
He said a letter asking Hickey to disqualify himself from chairing the meeting was brushed aside as being not “a matter to dwell on”.
There is a group in Bogia waiting for their MP to present his DSIP funds report for the past 10 years to the constituents.
They are claiming that many things he said funded are not existing in the electorate.