THE government has been asked not to bring new oil palm investors into East Sepik plains as there is already a group developing the area.
Aron Malijiwi, chairman of landowner company Turubu Oil Palm, said they already had an investor who was working with them to plant the farm and any new investor would only jeopardise the project. He issued the statement in Wewak yesterday after learning that the national government, through Yangoru-Saussia MP and Commerce Trade and Industry Minister Richard Maru, was negotiating with Wilma Investment Ltd, a Malaysian oil palm company for the same project, in parts of the plains where landowners were already working with Turubu Oil Palm. “We are developing the project with landowners’ consent and we are working closely with the provincial government and the national government. “The government’s move to initiate this project without proper dialogue with resource owners would not work,” Malijiwi said. Turubu Oil Palm was developing an oil palm estate on the plains of Turubu local level government of Wewak district and would extend to parts of Sausso LLG, including Urimo in the Yangoru Saussia district where Maru is the local MP. The country’s largest plain starts at Turubu in Wewak and extends to Yangoru Saussia, Wosera Gawi and Ambunti Drekikir districts. The Turubu Oil Palm would take charge of the oil palm project,” Malijiwi said. Turubu Oil Palm had completed planting the first farm at Samawia with 98,000 trees and was developing the second plantation at Kumange. Treasurer Don Polye visited the project site last year and offered his support, saying the project would benefit the people. The National Comments are closed.
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