Four Local Level Government (LLG) Presidents in Bulolo district of Morobe province have petitioned their current member for parliament and the administration to respond to issues they see affecting the flow of basic services in the area.
Long time serving Council President, Mr. Waka Daimon said that four major points have been raised by the four council presidents.
“Firstly, we oppose the current MPs statement to retrieve machineries and vehicles from LLG presidents, LLG managers and police in the district,” he said.
“We strongly oppose the MPs statement as these vehicles were bought by the District Development Authority and the former MP late Sam Basil.”
“There were meeting minutes and resolutions being passed during the former MPs time, and the transfer of ownerships are now in our positions,” Waka said.
Waka’s statement is in response to the current district MP Sam Basil Jnr’s statement on retrieving vehicles currently in council presidents’ positions, which got published in the two daily newspapers.
Waka said the second point is on district office operations where the District Administrator (DA) fails to operate.
“The district administrators have sworn oaths to serve districts under the Public Service Management Act. However, our DA has been operating outside of the district office and has not been attending to office hours,” Waka said.
He added that the third point of concern is on excluding LLG presidents from running DDA meetings, and the fourth point is the lack of prioritizing funds to LLGs to implement services at the third level government areas.