The Marape Rosso government has pledged to assist businesses affected by the events of last week Wednesday during the unrest. Prime Minister James Marape said the government is currently putting together an assistance package that should assist business houses affected by the unrest to get back on their feet. He said the government has sufficient funding in this year's budget allocation to cater for them. "For instance the K200 million for SME intervention, the K150 for state equity interventions." The Prime Minister stated that this is all in over K300million in this year's budget which he believes will be able to assist. Cabinet at the very earliest will convene next week to start working on packaging assistance units for businesses. Sharing sympathy for those that had lost much in the January 10 unrest, he said they believed the state should have been able to protect them but that was not the case. "The Taxpayers need our support in tough times." "We're a government that is known to give support for our economy and our people in tough times." He added that the events that unfolded on the 10th were a mistake that should have been avoided but said his government will take full responsibility for the unrest.