Locals make submission

KARKAR local level government president Bager Wamm and other locals in Madang allegedly impacted by the multi-million Pacific Marine Industrial Zone (PMIZ) project will make a submission for an interim order to stop the project.
Lawyer Tiffany Twivey of Twivey Lawyers will today make a submission for an interim injunction against the project in the Madang National Court.
Others joining Wamm’s submission are Francis Gem, on behalf of himself and 337 others of Kananam and Iduwad, and Frank Kawol Don for himself and 29 other members of Bama clan group as second and third plaintiffs respectively.
The plaintiffs are crying foul over the poor consultation and communication by the national government with the local communities.
Gem, who is the organiser of his community, said the PMIZ project was going ahead without proper environmental impact assessments, socio-economic assessments and public tendering process for its implementation that is to go to a Chinese government entity.
The plaintiffs claimed they did not know much about the project until a newspaper supplement was put up by then Minister for Commerce, Trade and Industry Gabriel Kapris on April 18, 2008.