Work hard, have hope: Marape

PRIME Minister James Marape has urged people of remote Menyamya, Morobe, to have hope for a brighter future.
He said this when launching five major projects, an initiative of Menyamya MP and Pangu Pati member Benjamin Philip, during his visit to Menyamya last Friday.
They are rural housing programme to supply roofing iron, upgrading of the Menyamya Health Centre to Menyamya Rural Hospital, Menyamya Station Water Supply, staff housing for the hospital and police housing.
Marape also announced Government help to various institutions in Menyamya.
These include K10,000 to all primary schools in the district; K5,000 to all elementary schools; upgrading of Menyamya High and Aseki High to secondary schools with a strong emphasis on flexible open distance education (Fode).
Marape also suggested the National Development Bank set up an agency in Menyamya to look after the interests of coffee farmers.
“There are three things that I want the people of Menyamya to do: look after your coffee gardens in partnership with the churches, value your education and have respect for law and order,” he said.
“Don’t be discouraged, don’t feel a sense of hopelessness, have hope.
“Have faith in God and continue working hard on your land.
“We, at the national level, will continue working hard for the next 10 years.
“I have set a target of 10 years for PNG to become the richest, black Christian nation on Earth.
“Over the last two years, we have started achieving this, as evident by us getting a bigger share of resource projects.
“We are also retiring big, expensive debts we inherited and building corruption-fighting institutions such as Independent Commission Against Corruption.”