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THE great Hela prophecy will soon be fulfilled when the new province becomes the geo-economic cockpit of Papua New Guinea over the next 30 years.
Hela's favorite son and Governor, Anderson Agiru, said this during the historic inauguration of the first ever Hela provincial assembly members last Thursday in Tari.
Governor Agiru was referring to the multi-billion kina PNG LNG project, where proceeds from the legendary Mt Gigira gas at Hides in Hela, will underpin the economic future of the country.
Governor Agiru called on all Hela offsprings to grab every available spin-off opportunities from the LNG project to develop their new province.
Governor Agiru also urged able Helas who are not landowners and would benefit directly from the LNG project to return to their land and be actively involved in the agriculture sector.
He said during the pre-colonial era and years after PNG's independence, Helas sweated as laborers in cocoa, tea, coffee, copra, palm oil and rubber plantations around the country to sustain the economy and development for the rest of PNG.
He said today with the LNG project, gas resources from Hela would again sustain the economy and contribute to the development of the rest of PNG.
Governor Agiru said while everyones' attention is now focussed on the LNG project, one of his foremost vision for Hela is to redirect the peoples' focus to use the same energy and sweat as in the plantation days to develop major agricultural plantations and food crops in Hela both for domestic and commercial purposes.
He said his government would provide resources to encourage the once industrious Hela people to return to their land to produce food crops and animals in abundance inorder to feed the workforce in the resource sector in Hela, the rest of PNG and the world.
The Governor said that in order to actively involve Helas in agriculture, he has engaged internationally qualified food technologists, the L&R Group from Israel to develop three major agro-industrial centers in Koroba, Hulia and Piwa.
He thanked Finance Minister and Tari Pori MP James Marape for making available K5 million this year to kick-start the Koroba agro-industrial center.
Governor Agiru also appealed to all Hela landowners to use the proceeds from the LNG project to develop their place and improve their livelihoods instead of squandering it on extravagant lifestyles in Port Moresby.
Meanwhile, Governor Agiru conveyed his gratitude to the people of Southern Highlands province for giving him the mandate to be the 'Last Governor of the Mighty Souths', adding that he would find time next January to visit certain areas of Southern Highlands to formally thank the people and bid them farewell now that Hela has split to become a new province.
He said Hela as a new province has seen the problems and misdeeds of the other provinces and would like to try and avoid these mistakes to get the province progress and in par with the rest of PNG in the years to come.
THE great Hela prophecy will soon be fulfilled when the new province becomes the geo-economic cockpit of Papua New Guinea over the next 30 years.
Hela's favorite son and Governor, Anderson Agiru, said this during the historic inauguration of the first ever Hela provincial assembly members last Thursday in Tari.
Governor Agiru was referring to the multi-billion kina PNG LNG project, where proceeds from the legendary Mt Gigira gas at Hides in Hela, will underpin the economic future of the country.
Governor Agiru called on all Hela offsprings to grab every available spin-off opportunities from the LNG project to develop their new province.
Governor Agiru also urged able Helas who are not landowners and would benefit directly from the LNG project to return to their land and be actively involved in the agriculture sector.
He said during the pre-colonial era and years after PNG's independence, Helas sweated as laborers in cocoa, tea, coffee, copra, palm oil and rubber plantations around the country to sustain the economy and development for the rest of PNG.
He said today with the LNG project, gas resources from Hela would again sustain the economy and contribute to the development of the rest of PNG.
Governor Agiru said while everyones' attention is now focussed on the LNG project, one of his foremost vision for Hela is to redirect the peoples' focus to use the same energy and sweat as in the plantation days to develop major agricultural plantations and food crops in Hela both for domestic and commercial purposes.
He said his government would provide resources to encourage the once industrious Hela people to return to their land to produce food crops and animals in abundance inorder to feed the workforce in the resource sector in Hela, the rest of PNG and the world.
The Governor said that in order to actively involve Helas in agriculture, he has engaged internationally qualified food technologists, the L&R Group from Israel to develop three major agro-industrial centers in Koroba, Hulia and Piwa.
He thanked Finance Minister and Tari Pori MP James Marape for making available K5 million this year to kick-start the Koroba agro-industrial center.
Governor Agiru also appealed to all Hela landowners to use the proceeds from the LNG project to develop their place and improve their livelihoods instead of squandering it on extravagant lifestyles in Port Moresby.
Meanwhile, Governor Agiru conveyed his gratitude to the people of Southern Highlands province for giving him the mandate to be the 'Last Governor of the Mighty Souths', adding that he would find time next January to visit certain areas of Southern Highlands to formally thank the people and bid them farewell now that Hela has split to become a new province.
He said Hela as a new province has seen the problems and misdeeds of the other provinces and would like to try and avoid these mistakes to get the province progress and in par with the rest of PNG in the years to come.
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