UPNG students

The student body included students from secondary schools in the national capital as well as the Port Moresby Technical College.

In a media statement shortly after receiving the petition from the students, which was delivered to him by NCD Governor Powes Parkop, the  Prime Minister said,

“I have received the petition from the UPNG Student Representative Council.

“I thank the students for the mature manner in which the petition was presented to my delegation.

UPNG Momase student representative Yehingu Humungs told Loop PNG: “We saw the newspapers and saw that the reports were very shallow and biased.

“They are not actual reports of what we students are portraying at the university. That’s why to show our frustration, we went out to the bus stop and burnt those newspapers.

“What we displayed in the morning shows that we have no trust in the media,” the student leader stated.