Landownership issue

THE article in Friday’s newspaper Praise for PNG hosting Apec summit does not sound good to my ear.
This is because landownership
issues are deeply affecting PNG and we do not need praise.
Praise for what?
We the people of PNG have our identity because we own land.
One man or woman in PNG is not without land.
For many, land is the only resource that we have depended on for many generations.
Today, the resources in our land are extracted by foreigners.
The laws governing extraction of the resources are not conducive to our people because this law is not originated from our ancestors.
Where did these laws come from?
We the people are owners of everything on our land.
What has happened?
Identifying landowners in
PNG is beyond doubt the most-expensive exercise undertaken by developers.
Land ownership is not an oral transfiguration but deeply entwined within the geographical, sociological, anthropological, economical and legal bindings of 21st Century PNG.

Kenneth Cornilius
Burns Peak Settlement