Sepik schools get K100,000 each

 SCHOOLS in the Yangoru-Saussia District in East Sepik will be receiving an allocation of K100,000 each for the first time in the last 40 years to assist with their operation and administration activities. 

This was announced by Yangoru-Saussia MP and Minister for Trade Commerce and Industry Richard Maru last weekend.

Maru said work would begin soon on building new teachers houses and classrooms for every school in the district.

He said all classrooms and teachers houses that have been built using bush materials will be demolished and replaced with modern and well-equipped classrooms and houses.

“We will also be building new clinics and aid posts in various selected areas of the district,” Maru said.

He said work has begun on designing a new high school that will cater for students from West Yangoru. 

He added that by June, the district with the help of a newly-established organisation comprising all the professional elites from Yangoru-Saussia electorate in the country will meet to come up with a five-year development plan for the district.

Meanwhile, Maru highlighted that another area of focus for the district is law and order in the district, which he described as being in a complete mess.

“I have initiated a move to get the provincial government to build a mobile police barracks in the district that will cater for East and West Yangoru areas” he added.

Prime Minister Peter O’Neill was in the district earlier this year to do the ground-breaking ceremony for the new barracks which will be built near Yangoru station.

Maru said the surveyors will be arriving in the district to conduct surveying works followed by the acquiring of land.

“We need to sort out our law and order problems before we start bringing in projects to the district. I can’t bring investors into the district without law and order issues being sorted out,” Maru said.

He said the people of Yangoru-Saussia must know that there are laws in place.

Maru said the building of the district’s economy is also vital.

“My vision for the new five-year plan is to be the leading district in the country,” he said.

A strategic workshop will be held in June this year for the commencement of works to formulate this new five year plan for the district with a shared vision by the people of Yangoru-Saussia district.

Maru urged all professional elites from the district to take ownership of developments in the district.