WHP tribe reconciles with institution after land issue

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By ELIAS LARI
THE Keme tribe in Mt Hagen, Western Highlands, believe they have been freed since they said sorry while reconciling with one of the government institutions they had interfered with in its operation sometimes ago due to land issues.
The Keme tribe, with the help of churches, carried out a reconcilliation session on Friday at Hati village.
The landowners of the Hati Highlands Agriculture College said sorry for what they did over the years to the operation of the institution while demanding compensation.
They even took over some pieces of land there.
However, they believed this had affected them and their children as most of them did not further their education and failed to succeed in life.
With the support of the Seventh-day Adventist (SDA), Melpa Lutheran, Lutheran Renewal and the Papua New Guinea Christian Fellowship (PNGCF) church, members of the tribe managed to host the reconcilliation session.
That, they believed, freed them from a certain curse.
Staff from the agricultural college, police personnel and church groups witnessed the programme.
Members of the Hati community contributed more than K2,000 and two pigs to the college.
During that ceremony, about 200 youths surrendered their lives to God.
Chairman of the organising committee Jackson Las said that such reconcilliations were taking place everywhere and landowners should be careful when trying to interfere with churches or government operations.
Las said that his community at Hati, after seeing that they did not succeed in life or in education, decided to say sorry so that the curse could be broken.
“We always fight to see better things in life but we forgot that we have a case that has been blocking us to see better things in life,” he said.