Student attacks man conducting awareness

A NIPA basin council president is admitted at the Pacific International Hospital after he was attacked by a student of the Kabeleo Tea­chers College in the East New Britain province.
David Navur was hit twice with a bush knife on his head and elbow while conducting election at the Marung village court area near Komea village.
Doctors have recommended that he be sent overseas for further medical treatment.
Acting Southern Highlands provincial police commander Chief Insp Sibron Patoto said he had not received any report from police in Nipa.
Navur said from his hospital bed that on that day  at around 10.30am, he was educating people on the limited preferential voting (LPV) system and urging them not to sell themselves like trade store goods, when he was attacked.
He was telling the crowd that one vote would make a big difference and urged them to think about their future when voting.
He did not mention the name of any sitting MPs or intending candidates.
He said while he was speaking, a vehicle drove into the area and the driver started to interrupt him and tried to shout him down.
He personally knew the driver who then pointed a gun at him and told him to conduct his election campaign elsewhere.
Navur said as a councillor and leader at Komea village, he was offended because the intruder was from another village but lived in the area.
He said a heated argument started I which he was provoked and threatened.
The student then turned up with others in another vehicle and attacked him with the knife.
He said he was later taken to the Port Moresby general hospital then to the Pacific International Hospital.
Navur said scans and X-ray showed he had a skull fracture and the doctors keep him under a 24-hour observation.
They recommended that he should go for an operation overseas to remove the blood clot and dirt from the brain.
Arrangement has already been made for him to travel to the Raffle Hospital in Singapore.
Navur said that he would need about K200,000 for an operation.
He said some good people had offered to help in his medical evacuation.
Joe Kopol helped him with return airline tickets with K25,000; Kol Toki, the managing director of Haren Travel service assisted him with K25,000; Governor Anderson Agiru paid his medical bills at PIH and gave him K2,500.