Trust fund to help develop education infrastructure in Kikori

THE Community Infrastructure Trust Fund for segment seven of the PNG LNG pipeline in Kikori, Gulf, will develop education infrastructure and improve lives, an official says.
Mineral Resources Development Company (MRDC) managing director Augustine Mano visited three villages in the area on Friday to identify key investment projects the communities needed, especially in education.
Segment seven of the PNG LNG pipeline has five tribes, 35 clans and more than 200 buffer zone clans.
Mano said classrooms, aid posts and tractors for villages to be used in agriculture had been provided to beneficiaries of the other pipeline segments in the past two years. But Kikori was left out.
“Now is the time to start with the pipeline in Kikori,” he said.
“Previously, people had complained about royalties and dividend (in other segments).
“Now in Central, they are not complaining because services have been delivered and they are all happy.”
Director of segment seven Wauro Omabe said there was a big gap in education and health which needed to be filled.