The NCD Governor Powes Parkop has given his assurance the issue of ethnic clashes in the city will be addressed today .
This follows an ethnic clash at Kennedy Estate some 15 minutes outside of the Port Moresby city earlier this week.
Governor Parkop in his first public engagement since his hospitalization and recovery said, it’s important to find a mechanism to overcome all these ethnic clashes because we are in the capital city and these sort of things should not be witnessed in the heart of the country.
“This will be my key message today when we will commemorate the journey of our nation tomorrow as we mark the death anniversary of our late Grand Chief Sir Michael Somare.”
Governor Parkop added this as it was late Grand Chief Somare’s dream as a land of a thousand tribes to be one nation. “That will be my key message to the people of NCD today.”
“These should not be a responsibility of the National Capital District alone but the responsibility too for the Nation as well.”
Parkop further stated, “All the provinces and districts in the country should be promoting national unity and not tribalism which is killing our nation.”
“We have to acknowledge, recognize the tension and come back with a mechanism for that and that’s what I want to do from here on wards.”
“On our part, our people of Motu Koita for example have sacrificed a lot for our country in the past and even up to now.”
“And the greatest gift that we can give them is to overcome all this ethnic tensions and tribal differences.”