Take in students, MP says

MOROBE Governor Kelly Naru is adamant that Wantoat High School should enrol its first Grade 9 students by next year.
Naru also assured the Wantoat people of Markham District over the weekend when he visited Yomfung village that his government would assist the people through the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Wantoat.
Naru assisted the church and its eight parishes with K10,000 to hold their church conference.
He told them that their high school should start enrolling its first Grade 9 students next year.
He said all the necessary requirements were being met despite the cash flow problem the province was facing due to the slow release of the Provincial Services Improvement Programme funds.
Morobe is owed over K38 million in PSIP funds and the slow release of the money has stalled many projects in the province and one of them is the Wantoat High School.
“Wantoat High School should start next year if all the money is secured to put in the necessary infrastructure for the school to start enrolling next year,” Naru told the people.
During a quick visit to the school which is under construction, Governor Naru and Leron-Wantoat LG president Andrew Gena saw the infrastructures built under services improvement programme funding.
Already built under the PSIP funding are four teachers’ houses, an all-steel pre-fabricated boys’ dormitory and a six-in-one double storey classroom building with concrete foundation and steel structure.
Two girls’ dormitories have been built under the Markham District DSIP funding.
Currently under construction are the school’s science laboratory funded under PSIP and the school mess funded under the Leron-Wantoat LLGSIP.
The school is situated opposite the Wantoat government station the headquarters of the Leron-Wantoat LLG.
Lae-based private lawyer Kenneth Aisi, who accompanied Naru and Gena to the LLG, was very impressed with the project.