PNG EDUCATION - MYSTERY IN THE MOUNTAINS

 

Friends and family mourn for late Elisa Hari at Bamata village, Mape near Finschhafen. Picture supplied.

JUSTICE FOR ELISA

 

By HEZRON KISING

This week we go to the polls to vote representatives to the national parliament. 

It is all in a cycle that repeats itself every 5 years. 

Elections, politicians, and an ever growing population, high unemployment, high levels of corruption, high illiteracy, high levels of political incompetence.

The list is just too long for this post.

The 17-year-old female primary school student who was murdered earlier this month was finally laid to rest, after the family could not afford to transport the body to Lae for a post mortem to be conducted.

A family spokes man said she was taken back to her village at Bamata village, last Friday morning and was put to rest around 5pm to 6 pm on Saturday.  

She was described as a peace and loving daughter who murdered in an animalistic way.

Police also confirms that the prime suspect, a 20 year old man from a nearby village where the victim was murdered is still in custody as police investigation continues. 

Even though there is no post mortem conducted, there are other sources of evidence that police will look into and pursue the case. 

Two weeks ago Post Courier reported that due to no professional doctors’ to carryout post mortem operations in Braun Health Center in Finschaffen, victim’s body was still in morgue whether to be transfer to Lae or call in a medical expert for post mortem. 

But, due to expensive boat fares the family had to take the body home for a proper burial last week.

An innocent little kid watches over the coffin of late Elisa.

Elisa Hari, a 17-year-old school girl from Rumbeng village in Bamata, Yabem/Mape local level government was murdered while on her way home.

Her village is some kilometers away from the school Qenpung Primary School. 

On Wednesday June 1, 2022 she told her teacher that she felt sick so the teacher allowed her to go home. 

She was advice to take two or three other students from the same village to escort her home but she did not.

Other students on their way home after class found her belongings on the road side like books and follow up to the village and found her missing.

A search was conducted by the villagers that afternoon into the night but to no avail.  

The search continued in the morning the next day and her body was located in the bushes.