Motu-Koitabu Assembly

He expressed this after Parliament passed the Amendment Bill to the NCDC Act on Thursday, 2^nd December, giving Central Province 10 percent slice of NCDC’s GST component and a seat for Central Governor on the NCDC board.

In a letter written to the Prime Minister, James Marape earlier on 29^th November to get his support, the chairman said he is concerned and dissatisfied at the intentions of the bill.

Election Returning Officer Terence Hetinu said they were able to kick start counting in the later part of today and hope to complete the process before October 19.

Returning Officer Hetinu said counting was scheduled for the 6^th but had to be moved because a church service did not conclude until late Sunday, October 7^th.

“We allowed (the church service) to continue. We were supposed to start preparing the arena on Monday but that didn’t happen due to some logistics preparations that didn’t go well for us.”