Non-government organizations in the country are concerned that nothing will come of Prime Minister Peter O'Neill's task force set up to examine findings of the Commission of Inquiry into the PNG's land scandal.
Over a decade more than 5 million hectares of land, belonging to tens of thousands of traditional landowners was leased out, in many cases without their consent. The Commission of Inquiry was so concerned it recommended 66 of the 75 leases it investigated be revoked. Effrey Dademo, Executive Officer of Act Now, told Radio Australia, according to non-government organisations the task force has been slow to act and is not as independent as it should be. "There's absolutely nothing and that's outrageous.The O'neil/Dion government has done nothing at all to implement the findings and that is a big let down to the people of PNG.Basically, the prime minister announced the task force that was suppose to come up with their own recommendations on the recommendations of the SABL commission of enquiry, now basically, we think that, that task force is a diversion and a delay tactic because the recommendations are very clear, it says, revoke the releases because they are illegal, its simple in that and I don't know why there has been a task force, put in there to look into and make their own recommendations"" Comments are closed.
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