Cash-spewing sewer sends Papua New Guineans scavenging for cash

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Cash-spewing sewer sends Papua New Guineans scavenging for cash

PORT MORESBY: Morata 8-Mile and Waigani communities in Port Moresby are enjoying a cash windfall when the main sewer started spewing thousands of Kina currency notes on Wednesday (April 6, 2022).

Morata 1 community leader Gilbert Goi said residents had been swimming in the sewage scavenging for money after a boy found a bundle of currencies totalling K1,800 in the sewage while hunting for birds.

“The boy later found another K3,500 glowing out from one of the outlets,” he added.

The news break was reported by The National:

Sewer spews cash

April 11, 2022The NationalMain Stories

By GEORGINA KOREI
MORATA, 8-Mile and Waigani communities in Port Moresby are enjoying a cash windfall when the main sewer started spewing thousands of Kina currency notes on Wednesday.
Morata 1 community leader Gilbert Goi said residents had been swimming in the sewage in search of money after a boy found a bundle of currencies totaling K1,800 in the sewage while hunting for birds.


“The boy later found another K3,500 flowing out from one of the outlets while he was hunting last week,” he added.
Goi said the boy told the community in Morata and the community started scavenging for money in the sewer on Wednesday and more bundles of cash were found in the sewage.
“Some people found K1,500 and K2,500 bundles while others K3,000 and the biggest bundle found so far is a K5,000 bundle,” he said.
Goi said the currency notes were rolled-up and tied with rubber bands and “we do not know how much of cash have been found”.
“Those bundles that the rubber band broke drifted out as loose notes and we cannot work out the total amount of money,” he said.
“We do not know the source of the money but we are assuming that it might be from a robbery somewhere. It has been five days of searching and swimming in the sewage and people continue to find money.”
Goi said the mysterious money had caused a fight between the residents of 8-Mile and Morata but they were all now joining to search for the money in the Morata swamp. “The fight started between the two communities because of the money but then other communities decided to join in the search,” he said.
Meanwhile, they do not want anyone to take pictures of people swimming in the sewage as it is a health hazard. “With the ongoing Coronavirus (Covid-19) awareness, we do not want anyone to come and take pictures of people swimming in the sewage in search of money as it is a health risk,” he said.

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