Deputy Premier, Hon Glen Waneta between the two newly sworn-in ministers, Hon Simon Ke’ebo (left), Hon Jimmy Daoni (second from right) and Clerk Matthew Maefai (right).
BY SAMIE WAIKORI
Auki
THE MARA government yesterday sworn-in another two MPAs following Wednesday’s failed no-confidence vote in Auki.
Jimmy Daoni was one of the 18 who supported the no-confidence motion filed against Premier Suidani.
He joined the MARA Government on Tuesday.
Simon Ke’ebo was all along a non-executive member, but his name was not amongst the 18 that signed that signed to support the motion.
He also joined MARA on Tuesday.
These two MPAs had been with the non-executive since MARA government was established and this was their first time to be in the government.
They joined MARA government this week and just after two days on the government side they were sworn-in to take up ministerial portfolios.
Daoni, MPA for Ward 10, was sworn-in as new minister for climate change while Ke’ebo, MPA for Ward 27, is the new minister for southern region.
According to the office of the provincial clerk, the swearing-in ceremony was facilitated by commissioner of oath and witnessed by Deputy Premier Glen Waneta and members of the executive government.
The inclusion and swearing in of the two MPAs has increased number on the MARA side to 16, leaving the non-executive with 17 – a majority of one.
Island Sun was informed that several MPAs on the non-executive will soon join MARA.
Solomon Islands High Commissioner to Australia Robert Sisilo
SOLOMON Islands High Commissioner to Australia, Robert Sisilo, strongly believes more students from Solomon Islands and other Pacific countries will study in Australia if they pay the same local fees like Australians and others with permanent residency status.
“Unfortunately, they don’t and instead pay the same tuition fees like other international students which start at around $25,000 (Australian dollars) per year of study,” Sisiol said.
“We currently have 40 students in Australia, 14 are funded by Australia and 26 by the Solomon Islands Government,” he added.
“Many more would be here if only they pay local tuition fees instead of the prohibitively expensive international student fees,” Sisilo told the Canberra Pacific Roundtable of Pacific Nations in Australia with the ACT Government’s Commissioner for International Engagement and the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade.
The Roundtable, held on Wednesday this week, focused on the activities Solomon Islands and other Pacific Island Countries are planning post COVID-19 pandemic and how the ACT Government and the business community can assist moving forward.
It identified climate change and its impact as another activity that deserves serious consideration.
“Australia’s commitment over the weekend to a net-zero 2050 target is a very important step forward and I commend the Prime Minister for taking this to the COP26 UN Climate Change Summit in Glasgow next week.
“But there are some countries that have come up with more ambitious targets for 2030 and I would urge Australia to also do the same,” Sisilo said.
These two key areas, education and climate change, are part of the ACT Government’s international engagement strategy to explore and create opportunities for possible partnership with Solomon Islands and other Pacific Island Countries.
The others are tourism, defense, renewable energy, health and sports.
The Commissioner for International Engagement, a co-host of the Roundtable, was established to reach out and engage internationally to fulfill the 2050 Vision for Canberra “to be recognized as one of the world’s great innovations, creative and art cities while remaining the world’s most livable city”.
The first Roundtable was held in 2019 and this was the second.
NO COVID-19 positive persons arrived on board the repatriation flight from Fiji yesterday, the Ministry of Health says.
It was responding to social media rumours that three COVID-positive persons were allowed on the flight.
“These rumours are not true,” a statement the ministry issued said.
“COVID-19 tests were performed on all passengers listed to travel on the flight, results for all returned negative except for three persons. 2 confirmed positive and 1 inconclusive,” it added.
“Two of the positive cases were children of the same family and were not vaccinated as they are below 18 years of age.
“As such the two children together with their family were denied boarding the flight.
“The third case with inconclusive result is a student.
“Inconclusive results are neither positive nor negative and usually in such cases, COVID-19 retesting is done.
“Nevertheless, with the current precautionary measures in place, all inconclusive test results are treated as positive therefore coupled with time constraint in relation to flight scheduled both student and his roommates whom he was in close contact with were also denied boarding the flight.
“Therefore, from the 132 passengers who boarded the flight, none of the them tested positive for COVID-19 as opposed to the rumors.
“107 have been fully vaccinated against COVID-19 with the remaining 25 passengers under the age of 18 years thus not yet eligible for vaccination.
“Nevertheless, all have generated negative test results for COVID-19 which is a key criterion for all incoming travelers and have been practicing COVID-19 key preventative measures days before boarding.”
The ministry said as per the policy of Solomon Islands, no one who is tested positive for COVID can board the flight to Solomon Islands.
“The Ministry maintains enforcing strict repatriation protocol, procedures and standards and therefore any person not adhering or having breached the regulations or did not meet the criteria of the repatriation protocol will not be allowed to board the flights.
“As part of pre-arrival assessments, every person repatriated had to undergo COVID-19 test within 72 hours of intended arrival in Solomon Islands.
“All the people proposed to board this flight were tested for COVID-19 on October 26, 2021.
“Furthermore, as per the regulation, all eligible individual travelling passengers have provided full evidence of completed COVID 19 vaccination before travelling to the country.
“However, despite fully vaccination status all travelling passengers will have to follow the mandatory quarantine and testing regime in place in the country.”
The ministry said it is also aware of the unvaccinated population below 18 years old who are on this flight, but there are already existing mechanism to address such situation.
“The period of quarantine will be determined based on risk assessment which is an ongoing process and will differ for those who are vaccinated and those who are not.
“It has been a long wait for our nationals from Fiji to return.
“Flights from Fiji has been delayed since the Delta variant hit Fiji and our country has then worked tirelessly, ensuring safety of our nationals are of the highest concern.”
The ministry re-iterates plans to open the borders.
“The risk of importation of COVID-19 is always there, so please get vaccinated to protect yourself, your community, and the country.”
MINISTER of Finance and Treasury, Harry Kuma is currently seeking medical attention in Australia.
Kuma travelled to Australia last month after he felt the medical complication in his body.
Sources confirmed MoFT has already issued memos to all line ministries to inform them on the absence of the Finance Minister Kuma.
Prime Minister Manasseh Sogavare is currently the Acting Finance Minister and he will likely to table the 2022 Supplementary Appropriation 2022 Budget in the November sitting of Parliament.
In the meantime, Minister of Environment, Climate Change, Disaster Management and Meteorology, Titus Fika is also seeking medical treatment in Brisbane.
A staff in the Ministry confirmed that Minister Fika is still to return home.
A second Economic Stimulus Package (ESP) is possible depending on the outcome of monitoring and evaluation of the effectiveness of the current ESP payments.
Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Finance and Treasury, McKinnie Dentana told Island Sun future payments would likely be restricted to bigger recipients such as exporters rather than to small farmers or business-owners.
In the first phase of the ESP hundreds of farmers and other micro- and small-businesspeople benefited from funding for practical business inputs such as tools or planting material.
In July 2020, $124 million was allocated for immediate measures to help these businesses cope with the economic impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, including $70 million for rural production, $44 million for forestry, fisheries and tourism businesses and $10 million for assistance through the Development Bank of Solomon Islands.
Further money was made available through Members of Parliament, a total of $42 million dollars.
The payments were due to be completed by July this year.
Mr Dentana told Island Sun that the ministry of Treasury and Finance will need to see the report of the monitoring and evaluation phase of the payments before deciding on any future initiatives.
“We need to see how faithful people who receive our support are, there are some genuine recipients and some are not that genuine.
But he said any focus in the future should look at bigger players such as companies exporting kava, cocoa, foods, vegetables and cassava.
“These people are easy for us to get information (on), not like micro individual recipients which is challenging.
“Our export (income) goes back to rural people who bring their products for export, the government should only look at issues such as subsidy which it did on copra,” Mr Dentana added
The Permanent Secretary said the monitoring and evaluation report could be ready by the end of this month or in November.
Among those that have supported calls for a second round of stimulus assistance include local exporter Varivao Holdings.
According to General Manager, Benjamin Hageria the economic stimulus package is a lifeline to companies during the pandemic.
Varivao was among the larger local companies that benefited from the stimulus package and according to Hageria, the money was used to buy kava from locals to export.
Despite being provided a lifeline, the company only received two-thirds of the one million dollars it applied for under the stimulus funding.
“We have faced a lot of challenges and we were not able to go further on kava production, hence any similar assistance from the government as suggested by Opposition leader Matthew Wale recently is welcome,” he added
Meanwhile, the Permanent Secretary said a number of ESP recipients from the public have submitted their reports on the implementation of the ESP, including some of the exporters of copra, cocoa, timber and kava.
“A total of five Members of Parliament have also submitted their reports,” Mr Dentana said during his interview with Island Sun.
Apart from the report on the monitoring and evaluation of the Economic Stimulus Package, an audit of the whole funding package will be carried out as well.
The results will feed into preparations for the 2022 budget, which were launched last week by the Prime Minister, Manasseh Sogavare.
Mr Sogavare said the Government will continue to prioritise the productive and resources sectors in the 2022 budget as these two sectors are major drivers and enablers of economic growth.
“This does not mean that other sectors are not important, they will continue to be supported,” he said.
Under the Productive Sector, Prime Minister Sogavare said the Government is aiming to support infrastructure and communication investments, support food security, create employment and entrepreneurship to empower youth and women.
The Ministry of Finance and Treasury and the ESP Committee of which McKinnie Dentana is Chairman will have important input.
“With the Information from the team I can recommend to government whether to roll out another ESP scheme or not,” Mr Dentana said
Farmers from Aitolo village with their tools from ESP assistance
By Brian Lezutuni
When COVID-19 brought the biggest economic crisis in a generation the government responded with an equally unprecedented package of funding – it put $309 million into the economic stimulus package (ESP).
Fifteen months on some farmers are happy while others are asking why they didn’t see any of the money.
A big portion of the stimulus package – $70 million – was allocated to agriculture. This included famers growing noni, kava, cassava, taro, potato, coconut, cocoa and copra.
According to the Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Finance and Treasury and chairman of the oversight committee, McKinnie Dentana said the productive and resource sector is a challenging component of the whole stimulus package arrangement.
“It’s challenging because we opened it for people to apply in relation to their small projects and that takes a longer period to complete,” he told Island Sun in an interview.
While the evaluation and monitoring phase of the project is still being carried out on the implementation and impact of the funds to recipients, some communities in the country are counting their blessings and others are wondering how they missed out on such a lifeline in these trying times.
For farmers on Aitolo village, Malaita Province the Economic Stimulus Package helped expand their flourishing kava gardens in their community.
To them, the government assistance could not have come at a better time. The kava revolution on Malaita is booming and the creation of wealth in the local community in Aitolo are realised 10 years from when the first kava was planted on these rugged parts of the Island.
The Aitolo Self-Reliance Association was set up after applying for assistance under the stimulus funding in July 2020.
According to Association Secretary, Lesley Sanga, the initial application was for $30,000 but only $12,000 was allocated under the scheme.
Tools being shared
He said the funds were made to purchase tools for the 30 farmers making up the association.
Sanga said the tools helped expand existing kava gardens for these farmers.
Walter Ara, a long-time kava farmer and member of the Association said with tools acquired he was able to expand his garden.
“I now have 2000 kava plants, and was able to expand the past year,” He added.
Mr Ara began his kava farm back in 2011. So far, he has engaged in six harvests, earning enough money to build three permanent houses in his village.
According to Sanga, the Association is on the right track in terms of its development aspirations.
While the community on Aitolo are fortunate, other farmers around Malaita felt that due to their remoteness, schemes such as the stimulus package are un-heard of.
Walter proudly showing his kava garden
Silas Su’ufua, from Gwounafou village, East Malaita can only dream of such a funding. He said there were no awareness done to his part of the Island about the availability of such a fund.
“We never heard about the ESP, but we too need some form of assistance to help us on our farms,” the softly spoken father told Island Sun after selling his Kava products in Auki.
Senior Agriculture Officer from the Malaita Agriculture Office Patrick Maesuba said over 100 recipients have benefited from the funding on Malaita.
He said the only issue is they were not part of the implementation process of the funding, hence would not know if the funds have benefited communities on the Island.
Senior Agriculture Officer from the Malaita Agriculture Office Patrick Maesuba
“Such a funding should come through the Ministry and more importantly the provincial office, as we know who the active farmers on the field are, and will identify them.
“The government did not see those on the ground, it is the agriculture staff who go around the province and interact with farmers.
But Permanent Secretary, McKinnie Dentana said the Stimulus Package has saved the country from further deterioration over the past year as COVID-19 closed borders and disrupted economic activity.
PS Finance Mckinnie Dentana
He said the ESP is implemented in short term, just like other stimulus packages implemented by countries around the world.
“It should be a quick urgent government measure to ensure economic activity remains stable during the crisis,” he emphasised.
According to the Central Bank of Solomon Islands Governor, Dr Luke Forau the country has yet to realise the economic benefits of the Economic Stimulus Package to the economy.
He said as far as export commodities go, only copra has increased exports in the past financial year.
“All other other export commodities declined, so I suppose the stimulus package on the cCopra industry has worked, especially when they subsidized the copra freight,” he said when addressing local Journalists around June this year.
Mr Forau looks forward to the monitoring and evaluation report, adding it may shed light on the impacts of the stimulus package on the economy.
Permanent Secretary Dentana further explained that in the productive and resources sector the government targeted copra, cocoa and timber as in the Solomon Islands trade is still operating and export is continuing.
“But people do not have money to participate to bring in their product to the market to be exported, this goes for kava as well.
“The assistance can see farmers turn their resources into money for them to use during the crisis and for export purposes to help our bilateral trade,” he explained.
Group photo of participants attending the three days youth leadership training
BY MAVIS N PODOKOLO
YOUTH leaders from Guadalcanal Province are undertaking three days of leadership training aimed at grooming youths to have good leadership qualities.
The training is hosted and funded by the International Republican Institute in the US.
Janet Tuhaika, general secretary for Solomon Islands National Council of Women, said the idea is to train these youth leaders to help young people to become good leaders in all settings.
“We need to groom new leaders because young people are the new people to take over leadership positions. They need to be groomed because we Solomon Islanders sometimes have no care attitudes on things but leadership is very important because leaders makes decisions where affects the lives of people.
“It doesn’t matter at what level. Leaders if they are mentored as to what makes a good leader we hope that we can groom people with potential to become better leaders in the future,” she said.
Melinda Kii, programme officer for International Republican Institute in the country said his training is to encourage youths networking around the provinces where the training is implemented in for them to work together from the village level to their community, ward level and provincial level
Kii said these provinces were identified because they have existing provincial youth councils. This training is also to engaged youth on civic awareness in terms of their rights and engagement especially on leadership.
Twenty-six-year-old Esther Tangithia from Longu in Guadalcanal said she is grateful to be part of this youth leadership training because it will help her to motivate her fellow youth members in her community on how to become a good leader in all works of life.
“Also this training will help me see and recognise the challenges leader’s faces in all setting and how they are managed or addressed. At the same time this training will help me groom my skills to become a good leader in the future,” Ms Tangithia said.
Meanwhile the same training was already conducted for Western Province youth leaders and the second training was carried out in Malaita.
This one is the third and the next one will be for Choiseul youth leaders.
MMGB Group photo with NRDF field officer, CEPF, SIRA, Sirebe Tribal Conservation and Siborae Tribal Conservation Rangers at the Sirebe rangers base along Kolombangara River.
BY BEN BILUA Gizo
MAI-MAASINA Green Belt (MMGB) group which consists of conservationists from Malaita province recently completed a look and learn trip to conservation associations in Western and Choiseul provinces.
Eddie Huitarau from Solomon Islands Rangers said the look and learn trip was organised to provide an opportunity for various conservation reps affiliated under MMGB to visit protected areas and to obtain and enhance perspective on the working context made by Sirebe Tribal Association.
He said Babatana Rainforest Conservation Project and the Sirebe Tribal Association have made history by becoming the first landowner group in the Solomon Islands to commence trading under a forest carbon project.
.Mrs. Joyce Kauraena representing Ahetaha Conservation under MMGB is trying out Ranger Finder to determine the height of a tree during one the training session at Sirebe.
Huitarau adds that Mai-Maasina Green Belt is proud to be the first environmental organisation to take a visit and do look and learn trip to Sirebe.
He said the trip activity was supported and funded by Critical Ecosystem Partnership Fund – a small grant and implemented by MMGB, focusing on look and learn trip activity to conservation sites with Protected Area status and declaration.
Huitarau described the trip as a worthwhile opportunity that brings substantial information for MMGB Conservation rangers.
He said knowledge and skill obtained from the trip will definitely boost the visiting team to get maximum benefit so as to further their conservation aspiration.
.MMGB Team Traveling from Nusatupe Airport to Gizo before setting off to Fatboys resort.
One of the visitors, Alick Kingz of Kira Tribal Chief and MMGB Elder said the trip was an eye opener and he thanked MMGB for organising this learning trip as well as CEPF for funding.
He also acknowledged the Solomon Islands Rangers office for facilitating the basic rangers training on site.
Kingz said technical skill obtained from Siborae Conservation rangers were beneficial for the visiting team.
“Though we are only coming from behind we can sense that this trip do really create in us the belief that we are not alone as far as rangers is concerned. We are a member of big conservation family determined for one common goal,” he said.
MMGB photo with Sirebe members- sitting (L-R): Mr. Linford (Sirebe Tribal Association Coordinator), Mr. George Ma’aikeni (Raripaina Biodiversity Conservation), Mr. Bartholomew (Sirebe Tribal Association Chairman), Aaron Watena’ona (To’okina Tribal land Conservation rep). Standing (L-R): Sirebe Head Ranger, Joyce Kauraena (Ahetaha Water Conservation rep), Mr. Esau Kekeubata (Baru Conservation Alliance rep), Mr. Jayson Erewai (Po’otori People’s Foundation rep), Ms. Immaculate Tautauhono (MMGB Legal officer) and Mr. Eddie H Huitarau (Solomon Islands Rangers General Secretary, MMGB Vice Chairman and Look & Learn Trip Team Leader). PC: Zahyid Namo
Another member of the team Joyce Kauraena shared similar sentiment saying that the technical skills learned during the trip were new for her especially the basic skills in doing Forest inventory readings and calculation to find the cubic stand of your own tribal land.
She said learned lots of things but one that stood out is the importance having biological and species baseline data of your own tribal land.
“This training was timely and relevant as such a time and with the information provided through the trip, she feels that her work will improve,” Kauraena said.
MMGB Chairman Max Totorea applauded NRDF, Gizo office for accepting the request sent by the MMGB office to assist them with the trip’s activities.
“Your support means a lot for the eight conservation groups who are in a Protected Areas process.
“I think it’s good to learn from Sirebe’s experience so that we do not repeat the same challenge and at the same time we learn from them”, he said.
The eight conservation association which travelled under MMGB are Ahetaha Water Conservation, Baru Conservation Alliance, Kira-Takataka Tribal Conservation, Ora Tribal Conservation, Po’otori People’s Foundation, Raripaina Biodiversity Conservation, To’okina Tribal Land Conservation and Wai-Hau Conservation Foundation.
Photo of some of the participants at Rukutu villages training venue.
Trainings aimed at improving kava farmers’ knowledge and skills to produce quality kava production was successfully held at South Vangunu and Rukutu villages, Marovo lagoon in the Western Province from October 4-7, 2021.
The Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock (MAL), through its Extension Division at New Georgia Region, Western Province, facilitated the four days theory and practical kava training which focused on kava management, harvesting and processing.
Chief Field Officer (CFO) for Western Province Sipuru Rove said the trainings was a success.
“Kava is a new cash crop therefore farmers need practical training and important information regarding the crop to ensure they have the required knowledge and skills to produce quality outputs.
“To ensure our country become a leading player in the kava market we must produce quality kava. So the training is critical and timely to better farmer’s knowledge on the practices to produce quality production,” Rove said.
Close to 60 participants joined the trainings which included men, women and youths.
Participants expressed profound gratitude to MAL through its Western Province Extension Division at New Georgia for the trainings.
They said such training is very important because it enabled them (farmers) to better their knowledge on proper cultivation of kava and the processes it takes to produce quality kava productivity.
“The training is a boost for us. We learned a lot of new information about this newly introduced cash crop (kava) which will really help us to improve our kava cultivation management and processing,” Rove quoted Rukutu participants.
“Harvesting and processing of kava is really critical. Most of us (farmers) lack proper understanding on kava processing. We had some disappointing experiences in 2020 when our kava products were rejected by a company who buys kava in Honiara for not meeting the required market value/quality.
“So this training is an advantage for us. We will utilize the knowledge and ideas acquired to guarantee we produce quality outputs,” excited participant from Tinge South Vangunu, Philip said.
Meanwhile, Rove said to meet market requirements, sound knowledge and understanding of quality kava production and kava variety recognition, are of paramount important that should be disseminated to kava farmers.
“This, will boost farmers’ capacity on quality kava production. The insight of kava information disseminated to participating farmers during the trainings, has built their confidence on new skills and basic knowledge to continue grow and process quality kava production.”
While acknowledging MAL through its Western Province Extension Division for facilitating the training Mr Levi Muli and Pr Pareti Ngini who spoke on behalf of South Vangunu and Rukutu participating farmers said the trainings really clear their uncertainties on growing and processing kava.
They call on MAL to continue with such support training in Marovo Lagoon to enhance farmers understanding on kava for better production output.
CFO Rove thanked participants for their time and commitment proven during the trainings and also acknowledged MAL management through its Extension Department in Honiara for the continuous support to the Western Province Extension Division.
He also recognized his Extension officers in the Western Province at New Georgia, Gizo, Munda, and Seghe for the job done in enabling the training.
The training is facilitated and conducted by MAL Extension officers from Munda and Seghe, combined with the kava farmer expert from South Vangunu Duko Village Mr. Muli Levi, who won the kava quality show hosted by Kubonitu Holdings Limited, October last year (2020) in Honiara.
Members and Extension Officers involved in the training are; Levi Muli, Kava expert grower from Duko, Langa Wilson, agriculture attached student, Esmond Roba, Extension Officer, Lorima Bella, Extension Officer, Bennett Paiyda, Extension Officer, George Vudere, Extension Officer, Kelvin Lamusasa, Extension Officer and Salome Ete, Livestock Officer.
THOUSANDS of Malaitans succeeded in blocking a no-confidence vote against their premier in a dramatic show of “people power” never seen in the country’s history.
In a public show of unity and solidarity, they sieged the building housing the Malaita Provincial Assembly and forced the mover, Elijah Asilaua, to withdraw the motion just hours before it was scheduled to be moved.
The access road leading to the provincial chamber was condoned off, women staged a sit-in protest in front of the entrance to the chamber, while a huge crowd marched along the streets and later to Hotel Malaita, where Asilaua and other non-executive MPs stayed.
Under pressure, Asilau announced his withdrawal of the motion at around 10am, later signing off papers to formalize his decision, witnessed by Premier Suidani and acting Malaita Provincial Police Commander Charles Koto.
A MARA government supporter is presenting a shell money gift to Premier Daniel Suidani for defeating the motion yesterday.
The withdrawal means no no-confidence motion is to be brought against Suidani until after a year.
The notice of withdrawal reads:
“On 18th October 2021, I Elijah Asilaua MPA Ward 11 filed a Motion of No Confidence against Premier Daniel Suidani MPA Ward 5.
“And notice was issued for the Motion to be heard on 27 October 2021.
“Upon consideration of the grounds submitted for the Motion, and further consultation with the other MPAs and in consideration of the best interest of the Malaita province, I the mover of the motion now files this notice in according to the Standing Order 139 and other Standing Orders as may be relevant to this notice, to inform the clerk of the Malaita Assembly that I now withdraw the Motion of No Confidence, which was supposed to be debated today 27 October 2021.”
Speaking yesterday, Asilaua said his team greatly valued the call of the people and considering the situation faced, they decided to withdraw the motion.
Elijah Asilaua (right) hand shakes with Premier Daniel Suidani (left) after formally signing the notice to withdraw the motion yesterday.
“We on the non-executive side tried our best to dialogue yesterday (Tuesday) on what we had witnessed today.
“It’s not only me so I have to take back the issue to my colleagues to discuss the matter and make sure processes must be met.
“And today we managed to come up with the decision to withdraw the motion.”
Asilaua said what was witnessed in Auki was beyond their control.
Premier Suidani acknowledge the decision, saying the withdrawal of the motion comes from the heart of his colleague MPAs for the good of the people of Malaita.
Premier Daniel Suidani is addressing the public of Auki at Auki Primary School sports-field yesterday.
He said nothing is wrong or illegal about this Motion of No Confidence, because it’s a normal thing in any democratic government.
Suidani said the way things turned out has resulted in the situation witnessed and the MARA government on behalf of the people of Malaita province thanked the non-executive group for the heart they have for the people.
He also apologized to his non-executive colleagues for any abuse comments they may have received from the people.
Suidani appeals to Asilaua and his colleagues to join MARA and work together for the good of the province.
He called on Asilaua and team to work together with MARA government for the good of the people and province Malaita.
