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Please explain status of sales of State
land
I AM a public servant who is struggling to live in the city.
I hope that I will one day own a house to raise my family in the city.
Currently, I am evaluating two options – buy one or build my own house.
For an average wage earner, buying a house in Port Moresby is like slashing
one’s throat. Hence, my best option would be to build a house. To build a
house, I need to have a piece of land.
Unfortunately, I can’t find that land to start with, and if I did, would
this land be for sale?
However, I am not prepared to buy a State land, even if any is available for
sale as I know to do so is illegal and against the law.
I am therefore, posing this question to the Department of Lands and Physical
Planning. Is State land for sale?
For far too long, land sales had been going on and notices have been put out
in the newspaper advertising “Sale of Land”.
I am fully aware that State land is not for sale, unless on certain
circumstances, which the Lands Department can explain to the public.
In this respect, I wish to make reference to a notice in late 2006 – a
notice by the secretary of the Lands Department stating that land is not for
sale. If this is the case, why then is it that land is still being sold and
what is the Department of Lands doing about this?
I think the policy division of the Lands Department is the appropriate
division dealing with this issue, hence I hope the director of the policy
division come out and explain this status for the benefit of the public.
Public servant
Port Moresby |
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