Villagers Given Assurance Of Future Development

We will take your requests and concerns, but remember development projects takes time.

That was the assurance Prime Minis­ter Sitiveni Rabuka gave to Koronatoga villagers gathered at Vunidawa Prima­ry School, Cakaudrove Province.

He told them there were different min­istries looked after by different minis­ters and they needed to be updated of these projects.

“We have the Commissioner North­ern, provincial administrator of Caka­udrove and Government reps from var­ious departments who will take note of your concerns, issues and requests and then provide information to the re­spective ministries to look into it,” Mr Rabuka said.

“We are here to listen to you, and some projects will take about a year or two or maybe more, but we will try to get it done.”

Request for sea wall

Koronatoga Village headman Sekove Erebola said to due to climate change, during big high tides or heavy rain, the water would enter about five houses in the village.

He explained these houses were locat­ed beside the road next to the sea.

“These families are poor and relocat­ing at this time is not an option since their children are attending Vunidawa Primary School,” Mr Erebola said.

“We also request for a road hump at the entrance of the school as motorists speed on our roads posing risk to our children and causing lot of dusts to en­ter the houses.”

There are 56 houses with a total popu­lation of 392.

Commissioner Northern Uraia Raini­ma assured him that they would look into this.

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