Chief: SABLs and ILGs unreliable

 THE special agriculture business lease (SABL) and integrated land groups (ILGs) concepts are unreliable and are creating social and economic dilemmas for local people, a landowner leader says.

Vauna Nobake, a paramount chief of Bau tribe in Cloudy Bay forest project area in Abau, Central, said he supported Communal Land Development Ltd on the application of customary law to communal land.

The local company is headed by customary land advocate Dr Onne Rageau, a medical practitioner.

Nobake said the proposal targeting customary land conversion into SABLs and ILGs would make them lose control of rights over their customary land.

“Customary law allows us to observe and maintain absolute consensus culture in decision making for any work undertaken on communal owned land .”