Stop provincial day events

 IT is really frustrating to see the burning down of a Gogodala traditional house at the Constitutional Park in Waigani after the East Sepik provincial day celebrations on Saturday, August 29. This house plus a traditional “haus tambaran” from East Sepik was also destroyed by arsonist earlier after the Southern Highlands students hosted their provincial day. Such burning of traditional houses will only cause disunity in the name of hosting provincial days whilst promoting provincial ethnicity. 

And these events clearly have no real meaning or value to it while provinces in the nation’s capital are promoting provincial ethnicity and destroying national unity. We should be celebrating events that promote national unity in the nation’s capital and not provincial disunity through such provincial day events, which only lead to the destructions of properties and disorderly behaviour in public places.

PNG Patriot, via email