Where’s Wakwak Resi funds?

THE hype and excitement created by the LNG project and the increasing rumblings by landowners over deals gone wrong have reached unprecedented levels in SHP.
It is no different from the years of Hami Yawari’s regime.
While all our focus is on the LNG project, millions of kina have been squandered.
Of the many things, one that I wish to remind the governor is his half page advertisement early November last year where he listed 20 schools and the amounts each school will receive from the Resi funds he collected at the National Planning office on behalf of SHP schools.
In the same advertisement, he said another segment of schools will also receive allocations come February 2010 from the same cheque.
Whilst others may have received theirs, North Mendi Primary School has not received a toea to date although our school was the first on his list with a figure of K800,000.
Wakwak Primary School or North Mendi, as it is called today, is one of the very few level eight schools in the country with a student population of more than 1,000 and rising every year.
As such, it is imposing enormous constraints on teachers, space, classrooms and materials.
To solve some of the above impediments, the school has made a request for funding from the Resi programme by submitting a detailed submission which was approved by the Resi screening committee because it met all the stringent requirements.
While we know who has picked up the cheque, we have not received any money.

Robert Posu
Mendi