Sikut settlement gets new school infrastructure from relocation funding

By ABIGAIL APINA
MATUPIT islanders in the resettlement area of Sikut Stage 4 in East New Britain witnessed the opening of new facilities at their local primary school.
The Rabaul district administration opened three classrooms for elementary and primary, three new teachers’ houses, rural electrification wooden power poles, water supply which included the first phase of teachers’ houses and the school and the second phase which covered the blocks, and a community hall.
The facilities cost
K2 million made available from the Matupit relocation national government funding of K20 million.
Kombiu local level government president Komit Kunai urged the people of Sikut Stage Four to look after the facilities and ensure they were fully utilised.
“There is no such thing as free handouts so let us align our thinking with the government and prioritise our demands in line with the thinking of the government,” Kunai said.
He said it was the reason the Rabaul district administration emphasised sustainability and ownership.
“The government cannot continue to feed us,” he said.
He urged his councillors and those responsible for governance in the respective 13 wards in Kombiu LLG to continue to hold ward meetings and generate constructive decisions and resolutions for the purpose of effective governance and delivery of services to the people.
He said there were many portions of land given freely to the people of Kombiu adding that the government wanted to see more tangible contributions to the economic growth
in the resettlement areas.