Plan to resettle displaced groups

Momase

The Morobe law and order committee now has a plan to resettle people displaced by ethnic clashes.
Law and order committee chairman Kiwas Nayos said the committee came up with the resettlement plan as the province had no such plan.
Nayos said the committee would start implementing the plan this month starting in Lae and then in other districts later.
The first to be resettled would be the Sialum people, now residing at the State house in Lae’s top town.
The Sialum people were displaced after a wave of ethnic clashes with Eastern Highlands and Chimbu settlers at Boundary Road.
Nayos said the committee aimed to get all internally displaced Sialum settlers back to their old residences before March in accordance with the plan.
He said, however, that the only hindrance to implementing the plan was a shortage of funds.
“We will work closely with our community leaders from Sialum and also with other parties to see how the plan would be implemented in resettling and restoring the displaced people’s lives,” said Nayos.
The Hube local level government president also said they would later attend to people affected by similar conflicts in rural areas of Finschhafen, Sialum, Siassi, Bulolo, Garaina and Markham, who are currently living in refugee camps within the districts.