The construction was abandoned some three years back due to a Court injunction.
Prime Minister Peter O’Neill announced his Government’s intention to take over when officiating at the inaugural graduation of the Institute of Business Studies (IBS) Irelya campus in Wabag last Friday.
“Your (Wabag) politics is your (Wabag) politics … as Prime Minister I am responsible for the good of everyone and am now taking over this market project,” Mr O’Neill said.
Wabag MP, Robert Ganim was among the first to welcome the news saying “it’s a great relief” and thanked the Prime Minister for his intervention.
Wabag Town Mayor, Kennedy Lamben Kiak shares the same sentiment saying the people of Wabag have suffered enough and “it’s time to move on leaving self-centeredness and greed behind”.
The injunctive orders were taken by Wabag District Rural Holdings Limited (WDRHL) against Enga Provincial Government (EPG) and the Wabag District Services in 2012 soon after the national general elections.
WDRHL was created by former Wabag MP and deputy prime minister, Samuel Tei Abal as an off-spring company of the then Wabag Joint District Planning & Budget Priorities Committee (now District Development Authority or DDA) which comprised directors from the three Local Level Government Presidents (LLGs) of Wabag Urban, Wabag Rural and Maramuni and several members of the district public service and communities.
The injunctive orders were aimed at preventing Wabag MP, Robert Ganim and his JDP&BPC to sit in the WDRHL Board as well as preventing the EPG to intervene in anyways.
This resulted in the denial of proper market services for the people of Enga and sprouting the emergence of road side selling. Already three lives were lost as a result of speeding vehicles.
Last year, Enga Police put a complete stop to road side selling branding it as “high risk traffic hazard” causing further problems and anxiety among the vendors and residents alike.
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