Prime Minister Peter O’Neill says the implementation of police housing projects must be enforced strictly.
He said this in Parliament yesterday in response to a question from Lae MP, Loujaya Kouza, regarding an incomplete police housing project at the Bumbu Police Barracks.
She said a building contractor who has been paid in full has left the project incomplete and has since disappeared.
O’Neill said he was not familiar with the issue and would get the Police Minister, Robert Atiyafa, to make a detailed response to Kouza so she is aware of the state of the contract.
“We’ve seen on many occasions contractors being given full payments for building many of these state institutional houses … and many of them have not been completed and we need to enforce it strictly,” said O’Neill.
In a supplementary question relating to police housing, Opposition Leader Don Polye raised on behalf of the people of North Waghi in Jiwaka on whether the Government could deliver police houses in Banz.
Polye said during a recent visit to the area, locals in North Waghi asked for Police housing.
Prime Minister O’Neill said the Government has invested over K200 million in the police modernisation program launched in 2012.
The allocation has been given to the Royal Police Constabulary to deliver many of the institutional housing projects.
O’Neill said he will inform the Police Minister to respond to Polye’s query.