Three more districts in the country will join the Constitutional and Law Reform Commission to record the customs of the country to develop PNG’s underlying laws.
An agreement was signed on October 3rd between CLRC, the PNG Civil Identity Registry and Tewai-Siassi District Development Authority to record the customs of Tewai-Siassi.
The Judiciary over the past two years has been recording customs in Manus Province to develop underlying laws in the country that will later be incorporated into the country’s laws.
Recently the Constitutional and Law Reform Commission signed an MoU with the University of Papua New Guinea to engage 30 law students who will go home and record their customs during the Christmas break.
Tewai-Siassi will also join in this massive project after a partnership agreement was signed yesterday.
“NID can also go out to register people on NID while recording customs of the people. We involve CLRC to allocate number of its officers to go on ground and register, to maximise resources,” said Dr Eric Kwa, CLRC Secretary.
Dr Kobby Bomareo, who is one of the commissioners of CLRC as well as Tewai-Siassi MP, said: “Tewai-Siassi one of least developed, isolated districts in Morobe, we are more disintegrated because of islands far apart.”
K250,000 has been allocated for this project.
Henganofi and Rabaul districts are next on the list.
(CLRC Secretary Dr Eric Kwa, left, and Dr Kobby Bomareo signing the MoU)