Thank you Australia, Govt for Bulolo road

PRIME Minister James Marape last Friday launched a K66 million road rehabilitation project to reseal the Bulolo Highway from 9-Mile turnoff in Lae to Wau in Bulolo.
For the people of Bulolo, this is one of the best news to come from the Government in the last 20 years.
Despite being a resource-rich district, Bulolo has remained unchanged in terms of government services.
Priority areas such as health, education, police and enabling infrastructures captured under the district services improvement programme funding have all deteriorated.
The cost of doing business in the district has sky-rocketed and restricted progressive economic growth as a result.
But, once again, Australia, in partnership with the Government, has stepped forward to address the issue of that deteriorating highway with this K66 million funding commitment.
Australia had also stepped in to address issues in the health sector in the past two years by building the new Bulolo hospital, Garasa heath centre, Mumeng health centre and work is in progress with the Watut health centre in Mainyanda.
With the National Forest Authority’s K7 million funding two years ago, Bulolo town resealing project slowly transformed the township into a bit modern economic hub in rural Morobe.
The people of Bulolo should be thankful to the Australian people and their government for this major infrastructure funding and also the National Forest Authority.
The support of these organisations has truly been a gift worth treasuring.
It’s a pity that the Bulolo administration has not appreciated this gesture by providing counter funding as they are fixed on their “free handout” approach to development.
In the age of globalisation, the spirit of cooperation among multi-stakeholders is a positive way forward to sustain socio-economic growth, a key point which the Bulolo administration is yet to understand and embrace.
Thank you Australia and the Pangu-led Government for delivering this vital infrastructure project which has the potential to transform the lives of thousands of people in Bulolo for many years to come. To Marape, thank you for bringing this announcement personally to the district.
The Bulolo people will continue to pray that we find the right leadership to assist you deliver more life-changing initiatives that you and other partners are pushing for.
After all, the historical towns of Bulolo and Wau were the first to see economic activities through large-scale gold mining and continue to live within that past.
We hope the interventions are the stimuli to a sustained growth and more modern versions of Bulolo and Wau towns.

Change Advocate,
Bulolo