GENERAL Secretary of the People’s Progressive Party Clement Rohee says that party members in Mabaruma are objecting to the community being upgraded to township status. The members made their objection by way of a Resolution presented and adopted at the People’s Progressive Party Mabaruma District Conference on Sunday, October 18, 2015 at Wauna Primary School, Rohee said in a release.
The following resolution was presented and passed unanimously at the activity referred to at caption, at which over 300 persons were present: “We the residents of constituencies within the Mabaruma/Hosororo/Kumaka Neighbourhood Democratic Council (NDC), whose names/signatures have been affixed to the attached Resolution do declare that we are not in agreement with the government’s decision to declare Mabaruma a town during 2016.
We declare that notwithstanding the developments and improvements that have taken place within the NDC during the past two decades, there are yet further improvements to be realised, primarily in the areas of utility services and infrastructural improvements before we attain the status of township and contest the 2016 Local Government Elections having satisfactorily met the status of township.”
Furthermore, the PPP members said the elevation to the status of a town will impose an increased cost of living on citizens of the township in terms of the statutory requirement for them to pay rates and taxes. “Residents have asserted that what they need as a matter of urgency is the creation of more job opportunities which would allow for an increase of their earnings and hence their ability to meet the additional expenses occasioned by any elevation of Mabaruma to town status,” the PPP said.
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PPP General Secretary Clement Rohee addressing the Mabaruma meeting