Students unhappy with PM’s reply to their petition

THE University of Technology’s student representative senate says Prime Minister James Marape’s response to their petition is unsatisfactory.
Senate president Elizah Kapma said: “Two different languages are being spoken here” and want the prime minister to make a clear stand.
On Monday, students held a peaceful protest on the “no job no jab” policy affecting the workforce in Lae and presented their three-fold petition to Morobe Governor Ginson Saonu and Lae MP John Rosso to pass to the prime minister in Tuesday’s parliament session.
The petition wanted the vaccination against the Coronavirus (Covid-19) to be made voluntary, the voluntary vaccination policy to be made
applicable within the private sector and for those terminated employees of companies in Lae to be reinstated.
Senate member and Covid-19 chairman Bill Lata said the ambiguous response by the prime minister to date has left the masses confused on the issue.
Kapma said the student body was not against the vaccine, nor the government or foreign investors in the country.
“Our stand is for the government to come clear on what the companies and organisations are doing by saying vaccines are mandatory,” he said.