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Mendi MP Pastor Isaac Joseph and Kandep MP Don Polye have a common interest in “killing two birds with one stone”.
The two MPs who share electoral boundaries have a common deterrent to development and delivery of services – tribal fighting over the years in the remote border areas.
While Mr Polye has dramatically changed Kandep from a backwater state into one of the most developed electorates in terms of infrastructure development, Pr Joseph has slowly changed the whole of Mendi by taking risks in funding and installing vital infrastructural services in some of the most notorious fighting zones in the whole of Southern Highlands Province.
Most of the schools, aid posts and other vital government installations between Kandep and Mendi were destroyed in tribal fights among the remote tribes 10 to 15 years ago. The two MPs have not only taken steps in reviving those run down facilities but have risked millions of kina in establishing new facilities like classrooms, health centres and other developments.
MP Joseph on the weekend opened a double classroom at the Marara Primary School. This was the first classroom to have been built after 15 years. Due to its remoteness, being on the border of Kandep and Mendi, it has seen no government services since Independence.
To celebrate this government service, people and singsing groups came from as far as Kandep, Magarima and Mendi. The classroom was constructed at a cost of K150,000.
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Thanks to the hon MP for visiting the rural area and providing funding for the classroom. He has also promised more double classroom.
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