Company executive accuses landowners of being greedy, egoistic

WAFI-GOLPU Joint Venture second in-charge David Masani has accused Morobeans of being unable to manage their greed and ego to ensure the Wafi-Golpu Project is realised.
“The project is halted and all employees discharged, leaving only six staff monitoring correspondences and 20 security guards at the project site,” he said.
“Therefore WGJV has nothing and no businesses involving or engaged with any other groups, organisations and agencies regarding the Wafi project.”
Masani addressed the Wampar Pipeline Landowner Association (WPLA) awareness session in Gabsongkeg recently.
WPLA chairman Joe Tetang facilitated the meeting attended by officials from the Mineral Resources Authority (MRA), Commerce and Industry Department, Labour and Industrial Relations Department, Morobe division of mining, environment and climate change and WGJV at Munum, Gabsongkeg and Zifasing.
Masani was asked about the K100 million infrastructure development grant (IDG) in Morobe that was troubling various landowners and splinter groups compiling documents and racing against each to secure benefits.
Other groups were collecting membership fees of K20 to K50, gathering fresh food and firewood promising people to bring the K100 million IDG over to the Morobe capital and slaughtering pigs to celebrate and distribute the money among its members. “It is a tragic indictment over the K100 million IDG and work of conmen,” Masani said.
He said the project was on hold with no operation, employees dismissed and no so-called IDG funding. Masani said there were 120 clans and family land boundaries overlapping each other along the Wampar pipeline areas.