The recently launched Moresby South 5 Year District Development Plan aims to continue to empower the people by improving basic services provided to the two thousand plus population living in the electorate.
The Member of Parliament (MP) for Moresby South and Minister for Foreign Affairs, Justin Tkatchenko, when launching his district development plan last night in Port Moresby, said the five-year plan also covers both new projects and current projects in the electorate.
Some of the areas covered in the five-year plan include education, health, community development and the settlement issues.
MP Tkatchenko said the development plan is all about empowering the people.
“I think over the last ten years, we have done massive infrastructures with our governor, and we have shown what can be achieved in that regard, but we now have looked in a different direction,” said the MP.
Giving an example of the work done so far, he said in the last ten years over 10, 000 people have benefited through education assistance, which he said is about 5% of a 200, 000 plus population.
“So, we still got a lot of work to do in empowering our youths, empowering our women, empowering our community to make them self-sufficient.”
“We want you to be economically independent, we want you to be economically empowered,” he said.
Tkatchenko further elaborated that in the last ten years in his term in office as MP, a lot was delivered to his people like the construction of eight new market facilities, new health facilities like the one at the Koki Wanigela village and the new state of the art district hospital, to name a few.
The member also reiterated a very important point, which he said continues to ensure success in the delivery of services to his people, and that is to put the resources available to good use and good partnerships.
The key, he said, was putting the resources into the right places, not wasting the opportunities and good working partnership between the National Capital District (NCD) Governor Powes Parko, the prime minister and his government, and the communities.
“I can tell you know, every single toea that I got from the national government from the DSIP and the partnership that I have with the governor through the NCD budget, go straight into the development of Moresby South for your benefit and your family and community.”
Meanwhile, the MP also said that the plan will also set a benchmark for future developments in an electorate that is rapidly developing.
“We want to set a benchmark for the Marape government, we’re going to say that this is what can be achieved. We will use this five years plan as a benchmark, so in five years’ time in 2027 when I stand up again, you can say whether I have achieved that or not.”