By DANIEL KUMBON
How Grand Chief, Sir Peter Ipatas
rebuilt the old PHQ Office complex
Yesterday Chinese businessman Joe’s
three-story building was burned down at Keas.
Today this story has appeared in
PNG ATTITUDE which is published out of Australia. It highlights how the old PHQ
office complex which burned down in March 1993 could not be saved because there
was no fire service.
The story also highlights how Grand
Chief Sir Peter Ipatas replaced that gutted PHQ with a modern one.
And how Governor Sir Ipatas has
built other million kina projects in fighting zones, maintain stability and to
export strawberries over 26 years later.
Please read on….
Nobody believed the people of Enga Province would one day export premium
strawberries. To outsiders, it seemed their main achievement was to involve
themselves in tribal warfare.
That perception will hopefully be erased now that a market has been
established in Singapore for Enga strawberries and possibly other agricultural
products.
This is the result of hard work put in by Governor Sir Peter Ipatas who
encouraged Israeli company Innovative Agro Industries to partner with the Enga
Provincial Government to establish a K23 million vegetable project at Taluma in
the Sirunki area of Laiagam.