Trouble-maker in Buka apologises publicly

By ALOYSIUS LAUKAI
NOTORIOUS trouble-maker in Buka town, Garry Sawa, publicly apologised for his wrong doings at his Noru village, Ieta, last Thursday.The moving reconciliation ceremony was witnessed by Autonomous Bougainville Government Vice-president and  police minister Patrick Nisira, Justice John Kawi, associate Boskey Horta, Buka police station commander Armmet Tsimes, UN representative Peter Siunai, representatives from the peace and reconciliation division, Bougainville administration and the chiefs and people of Ieta village.Sawa paid K2,000, a pig and shell money and apologised to Lina Pai, a former Air Niugini Buka office manageress, who his group held up at gunpoint at the Air Niugini office in 2002.He asked for forgiveness from those he had mistreated in the past.Sawa said he would not be involved in such criminal activities any more.He previously surrendered five high-powered rifles to the Bougainville police service, in Buka.Nisira called on the people of Ieta village to organise and benefit from economic activities on their land.He said instead of selling land to outsiders, the people should take part in  economic activities.He was speaking at the reconciliation ceremony between Sawa and Pai, in Ieta village, last
Thursday.He thanked the people of Ieta village for giving their land for the development of Buka town and assured them of ABG support.
He said they made it possible for Buka to develop.