New school for WHP

By RAMCY WAMA

THE Kwip Dau Technical High School, a new educational institution in the Western Highlands Province, will be ready for the new intake of students come the 2013 academic year.

This is a dream come true for the Nenga and Jikas tribes and the rest of the province who have been waiting patiently for seven years to see a technical high school established in their area.

Thanks to the father of free education and Western Highlands Governor, Paias Wingti, for fulfilling his promise for a new technical school.

According to community leader and Kwip Village Councillor, Augustine Ponong, Mr Wingti had promised the people of WHP a new technical secondary school when he was Governor in 2002. 

Cr Ponong said Governor Wingti started the project back in 2004 allocating more than K1 million to setting up classrooms, dormitories, a mass, and staff houses, but the construction of the school came to a halt when Mr Wingti lost his seat in 2007.

The Provincial Finance Minister and Mul LLG President Nathan Wantape said the fast erection of the new technical high school will cover for the seven high and secondary schools that were pushed towards Jiwaka upon separation of the two provinces.

Meanwhile, Mr Wantape said education in the province is one of the five priority areas that the Wingti government wants to concentrate on within the next five years.