Marape To Launch Projects in Tari

BY Finance Minister James Marape

Hello all citizens and friends of Tari Pori and Hela; for those of you at Tari see you at two locations tomorrow for launch of few catalyst projects.

Our old airport will start to see proper fencing and sealing and a better and good terminal as part of the national government airport upgrade programs nationwide. This is a K80million development package that got delayed when I tried to confirm wether late Agiru’s plan for realignment and bigger airport can pass technical specifications.

However when National Airport Corporations Ltd ( which I am a shareholder as FM), informed me of impossibilities of expansion due to wind flow and mountain closeness ( pi nagia andapari and mt huriba ), we agreed for re do of existing airport , with the knowledge that the road sealing currently underway from Komo to Tari will mean a one hour travel to access bigger airport in Komo from Tari.

We also will start the electricity distribution lines that I have been forever pushing with Government out of Hides to Komo, Tari, Koroba and Nipa. That is a K60million project that Kumul Petroleum Holding Ltd is funding under Cabinet’s approval that should redistribute power out of Hides to Hela.

We will also be launching the png Power Ltd substation in Wabia for the major 132 KVA electrification cabling that will run from Hides to Hagen, a K600million project. This one will carry Hela power for sale to png power in which Governor Philip Undialu is leading all of us behind Hela Province and all our land owner subsidiaries owning new power generation in Hides where we will own as business.

Important day tomorrow and all stake holders will be in Tari tomorow. Sorry shall i add on here , we will also run fiber optic for high speed Internet on the high voltage power line.

All contracts have mobilize with funding dispatched, they on the ground , and some of them are international contractors , I ask our people you have wanted development it’s is coming , embrace development and leave your differences at home or for 2022.