The Provincial Member and Governor for Madang Province, Ramsey Pariwa, has expressed disgust at a manner in which a logging company operating in the hinterland of Sumgilbar LLG of Sumkar District is going about cutting down trees yet miserably neglecting its corporate social responsibility towards its immediate impact community.

Governor Pariwa on Monday, December 1st, travelled quietly by road from Madang along the North Coast road to Bunabun then followed a road up to the hinterland in the Adelbert mountain range where he physically noticed the logging activity being carried out there and then travelled further on to Sewan Primary School. 

The trip along the road from Erenduk to Sewan Primary School is not properly maintained yet the bulldozers owned by the logging company are moving into the forests and harvesting hard wood trees.

Governor Pariwa, while waiting for the church program which he was officially invited to, decide to take a brief tour of Sewan Primary School and was shocked upon noticing the sad state of the classrooms some of which are made of bush materials and thatched roofing yet the timber company presently in the area is still cutting down trees and shipping the round logs overseas.

An angry Governor Pariwa did not hesitate to tell the gathering that he is prepared to close down the logging operation if the company fails to carry out its social responsibility to assisting the local community.

The Madang Governor explained that he is already working on a document whereby corporate companies that do businesses in Madang must also honor their corporate social responsibility.

He said it is very unfortunate that there is a timber company cutting hard wood timber on land in the area yet the primary school that is nearby does not have many permanent classrooms. Moreover, there are classrooms that have dirt floors. 

Governor Pariwa at the occasion tasked the newly elected Ward Two Member, Moyang Okira, to immediately mobilize those so-called landowner company executives to meet with him in the next two weeks' time to explain to him how the timber permit agreement came about and why the developer or the company harvesting timbers in their locality is neglecting its corporate social responsibility by assisting the people in services such as health, education and infrastructure. 

Governor Pariwa announced then an allocation of K50,000 to build a new double classroom at Sewan Primary School to assist in students learning.