Governor Taboi Awi Yoto

Western Governor supports Health and Police

     

Yoto handed over the two ambulance vehicles to Rumginae Rural Sub Health Centre and also officiated at the groundbreaking ceremony for the new Nursing College on June 26th, 2020.

The purchase of the ambulance vehicles was done under a Memorandum of Agreement (MoA) between Digicel Foundation and the Western Provincial Administration with cost being shared between the two parties.

Western should be split: Governor

The province’s huge landmass has been identified, among others, as a main obstacle to reaching the sparsely isolated communities in terms of service delivery.

Western Governor Taboi Awi Yoto believes that splitting the province would reduce many legacy issues concerning development in the province.

He said it will also allow adequate representation of people from this region in Parliament by creating several more open electorates, especially Nomad and Lake Murray areas.

Governor calls for ‘aggregation scheme’ for resources

He said P’nyang gas field and all other gas and liquid fields in Western Province must be developed within the province through an “aggregation scheme”.

He added that few gas fields in the province cannot be developed as standalone due to their low resource deposits.

Therefore, he said the proposed aggregation scheme would pave way for the monetization of these stranded gas fields.

“Without this scheme, it is absolutely known that these stranded gas fields won’t and will never go into production,” says Yoto

​Western Province ministers visit Ok Tedi

Governor Taboi Awi Yoto, Minister for Correctional Services and Member for Middle Fly Roy Biyama, Member for North Fly James Donald and South Fly MP Seki Agisa visited the site on September 6 and 7.

“It was particularly pleasing to be able to host this important government delegation to visit Ok Tedi,” said Ok Tedi MD/CEO Peter Graham.