NCD Governor Parkop on the Anniversary of the Passing of PNG Founding Father

Today on the anniversary of the passing of Grand Chief Sir Michael Thomas Somare we will join the rest of the country to celebrate his life and pay him highest respects for the journey he started for our people into nationhood 50 years ago.

 Today we honour his life and conviction too for our people and our country by starting another chapter in this journey Grand Chief and his peers started by making this bid on behalf of our capital city Port Moresby to have a professional football Team in the new Oceania Professional League set up by the Oceania Football Confederation. 

It is no coincidence that we submitted the bid on this day the Anniversary of the passing of the great architect of our nation PNG.

When Grand Chief Somare was asked how will be run and managed a country at and after independence without the professional technocrats etc. 

He replied that my economists, engineers, doctors, accountants, lawyers, etc are in their mothers womb. They will be born after independence and they run and manage the country. 

We in our capital city will not just celebrate his life but truly honour him by manifesting his dreams, this time in Sports. Today we start a new chapter in the great dream Somare had in 1968, an independent state capable of being as good or better than anyone else. 

We wish to make this great dream a reality in Football or Soccer. 

OFC has given deadline for bids by Friday the 28th of February, 2025 but we have submitted today in honour of our founding father of our nation Grand Chief Sir Michael Thomas Somare.

 He had great faith and belief in our people. We are confident Port Moresby City FC will be highly competitive and successful if we are granted a license by Oceania Football Confederation. The Somare journey continues.

Why "Morobe Block" in NCD?

By Alexander Palai

Out of 22 province in PNG only one (1) province, and in only one City - the City of Lae were Papuans welcomed & land area specifically located, and dedicated & even called "Papuan Compound" for Papuan family to settle down & proudly educate thier children. Some of the prominent sons and daughters of Papua were born, bred & educated in Papuan Compound's own Milfordhaven Primary School, Bugandi & Busu High School. Prominent Papuans like, Wari Vele, Howard Lahari, Vai Kereva & many other big names were born and bred right there at Papua Compound.

In appreciation of that historical fact, another great son of Papua Late Sir William Skate who visited and spent weekends at Papuan compound while studying at Unitech, in consultation with other other Motu Koitabu leaders, earmarked, formally allocated and facilated 7 parcels of land (Agriculture lease) here at 9mile in NCD for Morobe families to settle down (not for free of course). That was a historical reciprocity.