BY RODRICK DESURI
Auki
Leaders of the Bira Community, Malaita province, have refuted reports that sign posts at the newly opened bridge in Bira have been vandalised.
This follows a report from the Ministry of Infrastructure Development (MID) on Monday that sign posts at the bridges in Bira and Su’u, Malaita province, had been vandalised just days after the bridges were open for public use.
The bridges were opened on Friday last week.
Bira Community Elder Ishmael Bunimarau told Island Sun yesterday that the sign posts at the Bira bridge are ‘safe and well secured’.
“Here at Bira, we don’t see people damaging and removing those signages. Those signages are 100 percent safe as of today,” he said.
“We have community leaders that we have worked with to guide and protect these signages. The vandalism might have occurred at Su’u, but we don’t know,” he said.
He said the Bira community and its leaders know the significance and importance of the new bridge at Bira and are committed to taking ownership of the infrastructure and looking after it.
He said that such developments are what people want in the rural communities.
He also urged authorities to verify and assess properly such claims before announcing them in the media.
MID could not comment when sought yesterday.
