PNG NATIONAL GENERAL ELECTIONS 2022 - CENTRAL BOUGAINVILLE

 

MEET EASTERN - A YOUNG CHAMPION of CENTRAL BOUGAINVILLE

Central Bougainville Candidate Eastern Kasika Kirupana

By PETERSON TSERAHA in ARAWA

THE youngest of all the Bougainville candidates  contesting these years’ national elections has vowed to bring development and fight corruption.

Eastern Kasika Kirupana is part highlands of mainland PNG and Central Bougainville.

He is the youngest of all candidates in Bougainville, at age 33 and is vying for the Central Bougainville open seat. 

He graduated as a biochemist in the University of Papua New Guinea and  came straight home and contributed by volunteering in doing community work.

He then joined World Vision and was a main FORCE with his other colleagues to implement the WASH project in Central Bougainville.

Kirupana was the project officer who started introducing hygiene clubs in at least 50 schools, where they installed WASH facilities like toilets in selected communities, started improving sanitation, then water supply came in as well.

“For us Bougainvilleans who are aspiring for Independence, it all starts at the community level then it goes up to the political and leadership level,”  Kirupana said.

“If given the mandate as a young man I represent youths of Bougainville, our  future and political journey is in the hands of us the youths.

“I stand to shape a new way, I stand to fulfil our dreams at the national level, as a young man I ran projects all over Central Bougainville in two years,” he said. 

“I will still stand with my main aim and vision and that is to bring in more development and weed out corruption.

“I personally see that more projects need to be implemented at the community level and if I get in that is what I intend to do for my people of Central Bougainville.

“First of all I will fight for our way forward at the national level and I will also run awareness campaigns and even prosecute whoever is corrupt.”