Yama wants audit conducted on education funds

By DOROTHY MARK
MADANG Governor Peter Yama has called for an audit to be conducted on the education funds for 2017 and 2018.
Yama was responding to the boycott of classes since Monday by a group of teachers over their unpaid leave fares.
PNG Teachers Association Madang branch president Remsy Oss said K4.5 million was outstanding from 2017 and K1.3 million in 2018.
Yama said he wanted to know where the funds allocated for leave fares in 2017 was spent.
He said in December 2017, a group of teachers told him that they suspected foul play in the way the funds were paid to the province t had been handled.
He said one teacher which was supposed to travel to Bogia, which cost only K20 by bus, received K7000. Another allegedly received K10,000 to go Wanuma in Transgogol, which cost only K10 by bus to reach where the road ended, before walking the rest of the way.