Taking ownership of city

MT Hagen is undergoing changes for the better.
Youths are taking ownership of the city and cleaning up a huge pile of rubbish which has existed for almost four months. 
The eyesore also created bad smell and people have been tolerating it but no one did anything about it.
However, on Monday a youth voluntary group took the problem by the horn and started to clean up.
Street vendors who have been occupying places have been ordered away and it seemed people were starting to take care of the city.
Joseph Tikil, a community leader from the Komkui area, said Mt Hagen was the third city and the pile of rubbish was an eyesore for a very long time.
As a community leader he did not want to see the image of the city destroyed.
Tikil said now that people, especially the youths, had come to their senses and started to clean up the city, they seemed to be taking ownership of it.
With former prime minister Paias Wingti as the governor now, youths were organising themselves to work under his leadership to clean up the image of the city.
Tikil said law and order was another aspect that was destroying the image of the city.
He believed Wingti was able to help clean that up too.
He urged illegally sellers of goods to refrain from the practice to help make the city a safe place to live and visit.