Micah tours Highlands region

In a bid to secure the Highlands provinces for his party in 2017 elections, People’s Progress Party (PPP) leader Ben Micah is touring the region screening candidates and making awareness for a fair and transparent election in 2017.

PPP General Secretary Moses Kar told Loop PNG from Simbu that the Highlands people have received Micah as their own.

Kar said an overwhelming crowd gathered at the Queens Park in Mt Hagen on Friday and welcomed Micah and his delegates to the province.

“The event was as fitting as Micah fits well among the old and young generation of Western Highlanders,” says Kar.

Accompanying Micah was PPP founder and New Ireland Governor Sir Julius Chan.

Sir Julius was invited by the leader of the People’s Democratic Movement (PDM) and Western Highlands Governor Paias Wingti to launch his book ‘Playing the Game’ in Mt Hagen.

The launching was done on Friday while the PPP fundraising dinner was held at the McRoyal Hotel in the evening.

Kar said Micah then took a road trip to Simbu where he paid respect to late Peter Wieng and Sir Iambakey Okuk by laying flowers on their burial sites.

The PPP team will return on Wednesday and head to Manus in their leg of New Guinea Island tour.

Author: 
Freddy Mou