Shopping Center opens in Wabag Town

The provincial capital of Enga is gradually experiencing major infrastructural developments being spearheaded by local businessmen who are passionate about bringing essential services to the people says a local entrepreneur.

Perapen Warun,a pioneer businessman, started building his shopping early last year which saw the grand opening yesterday being attended by people from the four corners of the province who flocked in numberrs to Wabag Town to witness the historic opening of a double storey shopping complex.

The top floor serves as a modern, state of the art supermarket where customers have a wide range of goods and products to choose from. The ground floor will serve as a major wholesale warehouse where customers will buy their goods and products in bulk.

Warun said that Wabag was the provincial capital and deserved such investments as it would not only change the face of the town but most important open up a condusive environment for the people to choose a wide range of products available to them at an affordable price.

The general public was given the chance to tour the shopping complex and experience the new shopping experience never seen or experienced before.

Neneo Soti Nere, a subsistence farmer, said that he thought he was inside one of the Stop ‘n’ Shop supermarkets in Port Moresby.

Many people when asked were awed and showed overwhelming gratitude by what the shopping complex had to offer.

Perapen told crowd who gathered that the shopping complex belonged to the people of Enga and he told them to take ownership of the developments currently taking place and fully maximise the value of their hard earned money.

Warun said that he invested more than K2 million and took him up to two years to complete this mega investment.

Warun urged the government to boost the capacity of local entreprenuers by offering business loans at an affordable interest rate so local businessmen and women can expand thus creating more employment opportunities for the general population and bringing much needed services to the outer centeres of the country like Wabag, Mendi, Kundiawa and Tari

“The government must increase its annual grants to National Development Bank to like K500 or K600 million so we could borrow and further our developmental plans and business prospectus,” Warun said.