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Impediment to Development in Hela.

Impediment to Development in Hela.

Photo Source: Design for new Hela Hospital by SPENCER PELEG KLEINHAUSE Architects

Posted by Huliax Kuali on Hela Political Forum (Official)

Hela Province is made up of only three districts with huge landmass and more population. We have 1 Teachers College, 4 Secondary Schools and technical school with few high schools. Looking at roads, currently we have 3 major roads within Hela vicinity namely; Margarima to Tari (approx 45km), Tari to Koroba enroute Kopiako (approx 80/100km) and Tari to Komo (approx 70km). However, smaller ring-roads are countless like incomplete Homa-Tari Road and Margarima -Kandep road.

 We have 1 General Hospital followed by few Health Centers and Sub Health centers.
Then we have 1 main police station at Tari and a CIS facility up at Hawa with about 2-3 police posts in Koroba, Komo and Margarima.

Next is the 2 Airports and other domain airstrips that we have. The only Hydro we use to have is now seen to be run-down.

If we look closely into how all those facilities came into existence, we would realise that most of themwere built during the "70s and 80s". During those days, Hela had few or less knowledge of "Money" and not forgetting tribal warfares. Our fathers and forefathers had never demanded for their land given away to establish such facilities. They wanted services for the sake of us now.
Hence, we are crying for services and developments such as roads and bridges, electricity, police stations, schools, health care centers and many more to be named. Our baby province can improve and build such infrastructures but the onus is on us and our clansmen. I'm now trying to establish the facts to the "Impediments to Hela's Development". I don't want to talk about tribal fighting as one of the core reasons. The core impediment is the "Accessive Compensation Demand"
Yes by law, compensation to improvements, land surface damages and other environmental damages can be compensated according to the Valuer General's Rates but look at what our own people doing when machines move into sites to do excavations and earthworks. Even lately, people want compensation for the current exisisting facilities on their land. This is evident by some parts of roads from Tari to Ambua has not been widened due to such accessive compensation demands.
If only we educate our own people to allow developments to take place without further compensation demands, Hela will change. Change in Hela will be triggered by change in our people's attitudes.
Our elected 4 MPs can deliver such services but will we allow contractors to carry out the works? Even if a rival contractor carries out the works, will we let them on our land?
Our 3 MPs and the Governor are not only key players in Hela's development but rather our people too must play key role in allowing developments to take shape.
Its now "give and take". Give land and take service. Hela province is just a small province that can have a slide change in development only if we do away with compensation demands.

Let's all stand together for better Hela tomorrow. Let's all make Hela Never be the Same Again!

EXPLANATION ON STUDENTS WHO MISSED OUT ON 2018 HELA GOVERNOR'S SPONSORSHIP

[Posted on Hela Undialu Education Foundation Page on Facebook] 

GOOD NIGHT HELA, the students and parents. Hela Undialu Education  Foundation (HUEF) have looked into almost 99% of students throughout Papua New Guinea without favoritism or nepotism. As we all know, Hon. Philip Undialu (Undialu Philip) is a single governor for entire Hela people regardless of political affiliations, regional groupings, or category or rather classification of institutions. All institutions from famous University of PNG down to unknown Worklink PNG Ltd at Department of Works, in Boroko were looked into. We paid fees for students in Bible colleges as well.

However, in order to make HUEF efficiently deliver its purpose, and to avoid fluctuation of unnecessary numbers in each institution, we set a very important condition, and we repeatedly posted and text, and that was,

"students in those nominated institutions (89 of them) must be enrolled with their own upfront payment and must be in the school by April 2018".

Thus, when the coordinators visited, the students who were enrolled and in the class/lecture rooms were officially confirmed on our list for Sponsorship. In there, we interrogated students in those schools and when all agreed that name(s) of students who were not in their school, were deleted forthwith. Period! Some students, applied for second semester without paying upfront fees, but we didn't allocate funds for these groups of students, because we were not sure whether they will actually attend studies in 2nd semester/intake or not, and that's not questionable!

So, we didn't forget any single school, from which student(s) applied. We have a single student faraway in Raihu (Aitape) CHW, we have a single student in Aiyura Aircraft Maintenance (Kainantu) , we have a student in Minerva Training Institute (POM) , we have students in Highlands Youth Training & Rehabilitation Centre (Jiwaka) , we have students in Innovative Training Centre in Simbu, we have students in St. Gerad CHW(Central), etcetera. Mind you, those are not well-known schools and some of you may get to know them for the first time from here, lol. We have turned every stone, and looked for our Hela students rather than students looking for us to sponsor them. In our coordination work, we had Hela our heart.

Therefore, if we missed some students, may it/they be as a result of one of the following the reasons:

1. they may not have applied for Sponsorship;
2.  they may have applied, but was not present in the school when coordinators visited, and School mates confirmed about him/her;
3. they may have applied for second semester/intake, which we didn't allocate funds for them;
4. the students are found to be on corporate sponsor. The students under corporate sponsors were advised that their fees are fully met by their sponsors. However, such CS students in PNGUoT were recognized for their help in supporting day students.
5. by human error, which is natural can be understood.

Hela brothers and sisters should understand that 2018 HUEF is just a start and it will continue next year and beyond. As such, starting is difficult, but only few selective appointed coordinators tried our very best to diligently deliver our Governor's policy for the first time, you know! Please, I beg you to have some good feeling towards our work. If we didn't do the job properly this year, perhaps other people can be replaced to carry out the task to deliver this ongoing and very vital policy. However, regardless of who is/are coordinating HUEF, or who is the governor for Hela, the very obvious bottom line is, our students from Hela must be educated through this Sponsorship, provided our province is crippled with numerous social problems impeding our poor parents from meeting high fees.

Finally, I'd like to ask any individual or group of students who may missed out due to the above four (4) reasons, to please let us know in writing through this email  Inquiries no later than [30th June 2018] .

And further, I beg you to stop grumbling on FACEBOOK because, any negative arguments on Facebook can be misinterpreted as political propaganda. I guess, I made myself very clear. Good night.

Source: HUEF Facebook Page

PUZZLE-LIKE PROCESS FOR UNDIALU & POTABE COURT BATTLE

Photo Courtesy of Loop PNG

By Tarali T. Hibuya

The ending is not tomorrow, not next week Monday, not next month, not next year! Hela people, the fact is both parties (Potabe and Undialu) are yet to sell their life in the name of power in this battle of courts. It is a battle fought in a puzzle-like tunnel, where exit is difficult to be  envisioned.

The selling of their cloak in the form whatever valuable they possess to buy the sword is not done yet fully. Or in Huli we say "Anda koki, karo koki, onene koki, wanene koki, tindi koki imaru napi wene yako". Or we used to say in Huli again: "Manda Mandipu la koki, Ayu Ekarila koki" are yet to be done or in progress as we speak. The analogy is like Selling your cloak and buying a sword, to die by sword!

Potabe's successful "Petition Trial" and Undialu's Slip Rule Appeal cases at Waigani battling tooth-for-tooth and eye-for-an-eye may wade through very long puzzle-like and slippery trail .

Appeal after appeal can eventuate, adjournment after adjournment can occur and finally, the final result is most likely to be handed down in 2022 as I foresee.

Meanwhile, all powers vested upon Hon. Philip Undialu by the 300K plus people of Hela province and and powers of HPG are not stripped off by these court processes. The services and all other developments could flow, but only this nation's political and economical situations, on top of natural and our own made disasters at home, are somewhat slowing or hurdling the processes of development in our province down.

However, just like a dim light in a dark tunnel, the sealing of road started at Idiawi near Angore through ExxonMobil and Oil Search Tax Credit Scheme, and the Hela Undialu Education Foundation paid K3.5 million fees to PNG Tertiary Institutions for Hela students. Further, the Hela Health Authority and Tari Hospital's Emergency building processes are in final stages of completion. Many peace mediations are taking place among warlords in Hela as well, as we speak here, and many rays of lights beginning shine in the dark Hela!

Therefore, may I ask each one of us not to loose hope and trust in our duly elected governor, Hon. Philip Undialu. He is whom Late Governor Agiru blessed on dieing bed. He is the one our forefathers foretold (Kelote Igiri Honabi) to lead. And he is the one whom Hela people have chosen through democratic ballots. He is not a lier, but an honest leader. He is not that cursed, but blessed leader. He is not a desperatö, but a prophesied leader.
For better, or for worse. For Prosperity or for doom and gloom. For whichever destiny destined for Hela, it will all be realised when prophesied leader leads, and that's none other than our governor, Hon. Philip Aja Undialu.

I beg each one of us to support him in prayers, because our destiny lies in his leadership. Be patient and let's hold on to our psychological optimisms and believe in the deliverance of our needs through his political leadership, with the help of our God Almighty Takaliwape, because patience is virtue.

Likewise, to those who support the other faction, hold on to your hope as well because, anything can happen after five (5) years as I see, or sooner as you may see.