By Wasita Royal
The cause of Raubaul district administration building that was burnt down last week is yet to be established as the district opt to other means to continue operation.
The headquarter now stands hollow and blackened from the tragic loss compounded by looters who stripped equipment from the treasury office.
Rabaul district administrator Freddy Lemeki is now leading the district officers to find solution to continue their job while plans underway for rebuilding of the new office building.
“Our office got burned down but our knowledge, skills, expertise, and experiences are very much alive,” Lemeki.
While investigators from the National Fire Services and the Provincial Disaster Office picked through debris, Lemeki had already deployed sector officers to temporary quarters in the new district court house, education resource centre, and archives buildings.
Member for Rabaul Dr. Allan Marat convened an urgent special DDA board meeting over the weekend with a short-term survival agenda and long-term rebuilding.
The DDA Board resolved to rebuild, not elsewhere, but at the same Kurakakaul headquarters.
They also highlighted that Rabaul district’s cheques will be printed at the provincial treasury while as they assured the warrying parents that tertiary tuition fee subsidy will continue.
“Rabaul district, we are resilient people and we will rise from the ashes. We did it during the 1994 twin volcanic eruption and will do it again,” Dr. Marat said.
