Chairman of the Panguna Landowners Association and
candidate for Ioro seat, Chris Damana, said that his group wants Panguna to
open to support the economy of
He says without Panguna it will take a long time for
He also said that it would also take many years for
another mine to start up leaving Panguna as the only immediate project that
would save
Mr Damana was talking at a rally of 5,000 people organised in Arawa by the New Bougainville Party.
He is an independent candidate but supports John Momis, leader of the New Bougainville Party, who has nominated for election to be President of Bougainville and who also addressed the rally.
Meanwhile, the MP for Eivo Torau, Alphones Pemuko, has
said he is not happy with the common roll update in
Mr Torau told New Dawn FM that the update team was not visiting villages, but getting names from files of churches and village registers.
He said these files do not have the true names of people who should be on the common roll.
He called on the Arawa administration to correct the figures and get proper names.
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