Kerema Town to be Extended
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The township of the Gulf Province – Kerema, will be extended at a cost of 1.2 billion kina.
Governor Havila Kavo said the Provincial Administration has engaged a contractor named Melamaju Limited to work on the master plan.
The company is scheduled to complete the plan in 7 to 12 months’ time.
Mr. Kavo said payment will be made in six phases. The first payment of six hundred thousand kina was made yesterday in Port Moresby.
Kerema town has been labelled as one of the country’s failed townships.
Infrastructure and vital services such as banks have all fallen apart due to criminal activities and lack of public servants on the ground.
The governor said all this has contributed to the low economic activity in the province, despite its enormous contributions of the oil and gas resources to the growth of the country’s economy every year.
It was also recently announced that the province will play host to the country’s 2nd LNG project, and supply one of the largest amounts of liquefied natural gas to the world.
Mr. Kavo said it is fitting to extend and improve the township to encourage the domestic and international investor confidence in the province.
He said the master plan is the foundation the province will use to step on to achieve its 2020 vision of making the Gulf Province the economic hub of the Highlands and Southern regions.
The Kerema town extension master plan will encompass the provincial headquarters complex, Kerema High School, market, airport, public service housing, banking institutions such as BSP and PNG microfinance, and provincial police headquarters amongst others.