Stop playing politics with water, says Minister

By Aloysius Laukai

The ABG Minister for Works and Member for Halia, Patrick Nisira, says he plans to complete putting water tanks in every home in his electorate in ten year’s time.

The Minister for Works was responding to criticism by some people that the first 140 tanks had gone to the Minister’s supporters.

James Sahoto yesterday called on the Minister to explain why the tanks were only given to the supporters.

He said this was contradicting the Member who publicly announced that these tanks would be evenly distributed to the people.

Mr Nisira said that his instruction was to supply these tanks to already identified areas in his electorate.

He said that, because of the difficulty in fetching good clean drinking water in his electorate, he has made a commitment to supply water tanks as a basic need.

The Minister said the Halia electorate was on high cliffs, making it difficult for children and mothers to fetch clean drinking water.

He the only way of getting drinking water is to provide water tanks to collect rain water.

The Minister called on people to stop playing politics and utilize these donated tanks for the good of the people.