PPC Guinness appeals to locals for peace

MOROBE provincial police commander Peter Guinness has appeal to all Morobeans to do away with the hausman mentality and find ways to discuss peace.
It is alleged that there are 10 hausmans along the parts of Back Road, Centre Market, University Block, Bumayong and Situm.
At a press conference attended by Police Minister John Boito and Deputy Police Commissioner Fred Yakasa, Governor Luther Wenge and peace committee chairman Joshua Hagai, Chief Insp Guinness said it was a cult mentality to use natural power to attack constitutional law enforcers.
In a similar experience in Sialum, in Tewai-
Siassi district, most people who attacked police suffered injuries.
“The youths are urged to refrain from building hausman and congregate in it as police will identify and destroy the hausman while their leaders will be arrested and locked up,” Guinness said.
Boito said the violence had been created by a handful of criminal elements in particular in Eriku, Top Town and the main market area, and it affected innocent law-abiding citizens.
“People should not see police as their enemies.
“Police are here to protect us, monitor the situation from those criminal elements that go around capitalising on the recent violence and go about disturbing communities and continue to kill other innocent people.
“Police are here to instil peace and harmony.
“They are not enemies to civilians,” Boito said.
Boito acknowledge Kabwum MP Bob Dadae’s wife for helping casualties admitted in hospital and the Igam community for helping displaced Highlanders at the Igam military gate.
Yakasa said the peace negotiations and the planning of the guidelines and mechanisms should look at the long-term.
He said Port Moresby was only a capital city .
Lae, however, was the nerve centre because it had most industrial activities, the main port and road links were connected to it, he said.
“Police will use the police helicopter ‘eye in the sky’ to patrol the bushes of tension areas,” Yakasa said.