AN additional load of roadwork machines is now ready to be shipped to Small Malaita constituency for the Matangasi-Rorongo road improvement project.

An excavator and two dump trucks will join the other three machines, a grader, a roller and an excavator that have already been shipped last year to work on the 10 kilometre Matangasi – Rorongo road.

The heavy equipment are part of Solomon Islands Government (SIG) – Support to Constituency Development Programmes (SSCD) funded through the Ministry of Rural Development (MRD).

Small Malaita Constituency Accountant, Stephnas Sanau, MRD Principal Monitoring and Evaluation Officer, Agnes Tanihorara, MRD Monitoring and Evaluation officer, Timoly Carter and Research Officer Kejoa Para took delivery of the machines from Advance Quality Supplier Company Sales and Marketing Manager, Tozen Leokana yesterday at Henderson in east Honiara.

MRD Principal Monitoring and Evaluation Officer, Agnes Tanihorara while congratulating Small Malaita MP, Rick Hou, has also thank Advance Quality Supplier Company for the delivering the “very important project materials to the people of Small Malaita Constituency”.

“These projects have been aligning with the Small Malaita Constituency Development plans where infrastructure or road is one of the key areas of improving development in the constituency,” Mrs Tanihorara told Island Sun during the handover yesterday.

“I strongly believe that better infrastructure such as road will improve developments progress. Thus, acquiring these equipment will be a great success for the constituency road construction and the constituency development as a whole,” she adds.

Mrs Tanihorara said this also meet the aim and objectives of the Constituency Development Fund (CDF) projects which is to improve the livelihood of all Solomon Islanders, especially in rural communities.

Advance Quality Supplier Company Sales and Marketing Manager, Tozen Leokana told the paper that the brand new machines were brought in from Australia and China.

Small Malaita Constituency Accountant, Stephnas Sanau informed this paper that this is part of the constituency development plan to push infrastructure development forward.

Mr Sanau said scoping on the work has already been done, from Matangasi on the coast up to Rorongo on the highlands of Small Malaita.

He said a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) has already been signed by land owners last month for the road development.

“We hope work should start since all preliminary arrangements were completed,” Mr Sanau said.

Meanwhile, MRD Principal Monitoring and Evaluation Officer, Agnes Tanihorara urged all Small Malaita constituents to work together with their MP and his constituency officers to utulise the machines to improve roads withing the constituency.

“Enhanced developments can only achieved if there is cooperation in the community,” she said.