ATS settlement

A woman was reportedly killed in this election-related violence. A video of the dead person purportedly killed by a stray bullet went viral on social media on Monday, with many commentators levelling blame at the police.

Mr Ikumu confirmed that police reinforcements went to restore order when a rowdy and quarrelsome crowd threatened to harm election officials and disrupted polling at the ATS settlement. Rocks were hurled at police and gunshots were fired to disperse the unruly crowd.

The group, led by Gibson Asina and John Kuri, had their lawyer serve the section 5 notice on the state. 

They claim they were forcefully evicted on 2 and 3rd June 2017 after they paid the landowners for a piece of land. 

They later came to learn that the portion of land was under a court battle in the National Court. 

They said all communication was through the landowner however, they later watched helplessly as bulldozers forcefully removed their houses. 

Alma Jagiri (33), Bernard Jagiri (29) and a 17-year-old from Bauwame village, Tufi appeared in court after they were arrested and charged with causing grievous bodily harm to Alma's husband, Kelly Avedi.

They appeared before Magistrate Mekeo Gauli at the Waigani Committal Court, who read and explained their charge to them before ordering for the 17-year-old's case to be transferred to the juvenile court.

According to the police summary of facts, the incident took place after Alma went to her maiden family house on the night of Oct 29, 2016.

Community policing coordinator reserve senior constable associate, Joseph Baiau, said law and order must be firstly addressed at the community level.

As a community policing coordinator in Musa Community at ATS settlement in Port Moresby, Baiau is a strong advocate of helping youths turn away from the bad habit of criminal activities.

Baiau said law and order must be addressed, starting from the provinces down to the village level.

About 500 youths committed to refrain from this bad behaviour of producing homebrew and resorting to illegal activities.

The equipment included three buckets and two containers for brewing illegal alcohol, which was normally made from yeast and sugar.

Community leader and former Member of Parliament, Akoaoka Doi, thanked the youths for coming forward to surrender the equipment and those who vowed to stop illegal activities.

Doi told the youths to change for the better as they will be parents in the future and they need to start being responsible.