TEAM WARI VELE ON THE MOVE

 

Chief Wari Vele and his beautiful wife and number 1 supporter Mrs Kila Vele.

SINGING ALONG WITH CHIEF WARI VELE

IF you wanna have a good laugh, wonder down to Taikone Beach in Port Moresby’s southside beaches.

There you might find a stand-up comic who has a knack for tickling the fancy of his friends and followers with belly dancing laughter.

And if you haven’t heard enough of his funny jokes, then take a seat and be entertained by the sea breeze with some golden oldies from the past.

Welcome to Taikone, home of Team Wari Vele 2022, where your laughter is assured and your request for an oldie will be delivered with a flourish.

Like the joke about Motukea, Iokea, and I don’t care, with an added salt and pepper shake from the Harahara String Band of the Miaru River with their 1970s hit: ‘Sapos yu laik salens mi, ai don KEA enipoti!’

Which makes Wari Vele something of an enigma. You can’t tell where he is coming from or where he will meet you. 

Chief Wari Vele giving his first press conference after his installation as Paramount Chief of Hula. 

Some people call him the Red Dragon. You just have to be prepared to sing with him with a huff and a puff.

Many acclimatize with ‘Mi Wari Lo Yu’, the famous catchy jingle that powered Wari to the top in the 2006 NCD by-election following the death of fellow Papuan and another singalong fanatic late Bill Skate.

Whichever way he gets a lakatoi heading, you don't worry, be happy!

You will still get to like Wari because he does worry about your next song and dance. 

One of his favourite songs is about Big Old Baldy, the famous Kila Kila Hill, epitomized by the folksy tune of the same beat ‘Kaukana’.

Wari does have a boom beat vocal on occasions. He once owned a radio station, FM Central, where golden oldies, country and western love songs were a boom shakalaka hits and memories rolled off its airwaves.

Maoro.

Mrs Kila Vele nambawan sapota and organizer of Team Wari Vele 2022.

Last Easter Monday, Wari was crowned as Paramount Chief of Hula, a community down the Papuan Coast known for its sailors and fishermen.

Being chief is not a problem. His father is descended from the original chief of Hula going back a century.

But being chief comes with a whole lot of responsibilities, reminisced Chief Wari. 

It has not stopped the jokes and the songs. Infact chiefs were known to keep their people happy buy telling a joke or two, and usually led the singsing in the past.

With the chief’s headdress on, Chief Wari is looking at capturing an old kingdom which he briefly ruled in 2006.

He is challenging old foe Powes Parkop for the NCD seat in NGE 2022.

Chief Wari Vele will be running under People’s Labour Party ticket. 

Mi Wari Lo Yu is here.