Editorial
PNG Post-Courier
PORT MORESBY, Papua New Guinea (Dec. 30) – The Lae dilemma with the furor over eviction of squatters has the potential to be disastrous for the nation’s second biggest city.
[PIR editor’s note: Lae is located on the northern coast of PNG’s mainland peninsula.] Provincial and national officials and politicians must be careful in handling this issue. Lae has been emulating the example of Port Moresby, where people from other parts of the country have been visiting on one-way tickets and staying for good.
The trouble is that they have been squatting on other peoples’ land, not their own. It is a recipe for disaster.
It is a shame nothing has been done nationwide. It’s been thrown in the "too hard’’ basket by a generation of so-called decision-makers and we now have two major cities surrounded by people who have no right to be there and, in many cases, poor chances of re-settling in the villages they came from.
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