Momis seeks help to ban execs

National

AUTONOMOUS Bougainville Government President John Momis has asked Prime Minister James Marape to ban seven foreign mining executives from entering Bougainville.
Momis requested Marape’s help after the mining executives continued to enter Bougainville despite the ABG imposing a ban on them entering Bougainville.
Momis said yesterday that they had imposed a travel ban on Oct 3, 2018 and again on Sept 24 this year.
“It has been brought to the attention of the ABG that certain foreign company executives and shareholders who have a travel ban imposed on them are still continuing to disrespect our customs and laws, and causing disharmony amongst our people at such a critical time in Bougainville’s history,” Momis said.
“As such the ABG has had no choice but request the assistance of the Prime Minister James Marape and the Office of Immigration and Border Security, to impose a travel ban on the named individuals from entering PNG and Bougainville.”
The banned individuals are: Michael J Carrick (chairman of RTG Mining), Justine A Magee (chief executive officer and executive director of RTG Mining), Mark Turner (chief operations officer of RTG Mining), Robert N Smith (non-executive director of RTG Mining), Phillip C Lockyer (non-executive director of RTG Mining), Renzie Duncan (shareholder of Central Exploration Pty Ltd) and Nikolajs Zuks (shareholder of Kalia Group).