Police move to stop fighting

 WARRING tribes in Porgera, Enga, have been issued preventive orders and are urged to maintain order.

Acting provincial police commander Chief Inspector Epenes Nili told a large gathering at Kairik Airport outside Porgera station that the piece of paper with orders was “very important”.

Nili told leaders from Kakayuni, Eno, Nomali, Aiakena, Bepis and Maiuni who signed the orders that they would be jailed for two years with hard labourer or pay a fine of K1000 if they did not comply with the order.

He issued the order after leaders from tribes involved in two on-going tribal fights in Porgera, since 2003, that claimed more than 200 lives and destroyed properties costing millions of kina, to make peace on Monday.

He said the fights between Kakayuni and Eno tribes in Lower Porgera over tailing dam compensation payments and another fight between Nomali and Aiakena tribesmen of Tipinini near Kairik Airport over a piece of land at Pauwere village lasted 13 years.

Nili told Porgera police station commander Inspector Peter Yambum and commander of the Defence Force based in Porgera to monitor the movement of the people and their leaders closely.