PM salutes young man who lost entire family in Tari massacre

By Isaac Nicholas - Post Courier

Prime Minister James Marape has saluted a young ward member who lost his whole family during the massacre in Tari by not taking the law into his own hands. Mr Marape said the young ward member, Oli Ripu, has all the tribal arsenal he can use to retaliate for the killing of his entire family but did not. “He is a small businessman who can buy guns and retaliate but he literally cried in front of the policemen after he spoke to me on the phone,” he said. “He is the ward member of the village, and I said if you go and fight again, what will happen? “In the midst of negativities, good stories do emerge in places like Tari. “The young man said Member I will not go and retaliate, I leave it in your hands, hands of law and justice sector. He had every tribal arsenal to retaliate but he never retaliated and I take my hats of to this young ward member.” “As prime minister, because it is happening in my own electorate, I cannot be too greedy in mobilsing resources to attend to one matter because law and justice sector issues are prevalent right across our country. “One cosmetic approach will not be a permanent solution to the endemic problem our nation is face with, the threat of insecurity from within our domestic ends. “The prevalence of guns among us, not only Hela province, but guns is a migratory species. They move from province to province, district to district, hand to hand. The mercenaries they make money out of this one. “This parliament has it in our disposal to discuss, debate in total clarity and find a solution to this issue. If its not a threat today, it will be a threat for us tomorrow.” Mr Marape was responding to questions from Opposition Leader Belden Namah in Parliament yesterday.


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