Road seen as catalyst

THIS is my message to the Kagua-Erave people as the sealed road reaches Parua Mapu (Kagua Station).
Building and taking a road to your doorstep is like completing a house and home on your own.
In the house or home, we work, till the land, make new gardens and take the harvest to the house to cook, feed the family and share extras with extended families and friends.
The house is of no use and value if food is not produced, cooked and served to those in it.
In the same analogy, the new road to our doorstep has been sealed to Kagua Station and will be progressed down to Erave and beyond to Kikori via Samberigi valley.
So my take and plea to Kagua-Erave people is to take advantage of the road developments to build yourselves good homes, food gardens, plant coffee estates and blocks to enrich your lives.
The division of labour is a shared responsibility in contemporary society.
This means the people have certain degree of limits at their labour disposal and the State authorities have their share too.
The people do have the foundation resources and this is their land, labour, skills, knowledge and technology. The people are agriculturalists by birth.
PNG kids are self-made bush magpies, roaming around aimlessly in the jungles and villages.
On this note, I agree that Prime Minister Peter O’Neill is doing the right thing to develop the public infrastructures in the Highlands and PNG as a whole.
I am an advocate for rural-focused developments because that is real people and real PNG.
And back to KE.
I am happy the sealed road has reached Kagua Station and the prime minister has declared it will continue to Erave as part of the bigger Agiru Highway.
So our local MP and district development authority board have a bigger role to play to set up the launchpad for development in Kagua Erave.
The onus is now on our local MP Wesley Ora Raminai.

Yapi Akore
Kagua-Erave