Commander NCD and Central, Assistant Commissioner Anthony Wagambie Jnr said ethnic fights resulting from trivial disputes are becoming common, especially among the settlement communities in the Nation’s Capital, Port Moresby.
The long Independence weekend was no exception with fighting at Tete settlement and Morata.
Police were commended for quickly stepping in at both sites and effectively containing the situation.
There were two deaths reported over the long weekend.
The death of a PMV bus driver and a man from Western Province.
The death of the PMV bus driver caused public transport issues when all PMV operators refused to carry passengers.
“Police and ambulance workers recovered the corpse of a PMV crew who was reportedly chased and killed near the Kone Tigers oval on Independence Day, ” Wagambi said in a statement.
He said the lifeless body of a Western Province man was also found near Vabukori village on the outskirts of Port Moresby city on September 17th.
Both deaths are from separate incidents.
Wagambi said detectives are now investigating these two deaths.
The Police Chief said armed robberies and motor vehicle thefts rarely occur because of the effective policing strategies put in place by the NCD/Central Command.
Therefore the primary focus and attention now are the intermittent fights especially within the settlement communities because of the city’s rapid growth and expansion of new settlements.
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