More on Lae airport land

FOLLOWING my previous article on the old Lae airport land last week, and obviously unknown to myself, new information has now surfaced that the trunk road has been amended.
The intention of this trunk road was to help smooth out traffic flow but that has now been changed to include an L-shaped corner near where the sheriff’s office building is.
Other changes involve the previously designated land for the national judiciary and the police department situated near the current old runway roundabout.
This piece of land has further subdivided to create two more allotments which I’m sure has been done fraudulently with the help of officers in the Lands Department.
What is of concern is that these changes were made unilaterally by some Lands Department senior officers without both the national and provincial physical planning boards deliberation on the amendments.
It is fairly obvious that these unilateral amendments to the original design of the Lae old airport land were not made for the general good of the public but merely to satisfy one’s corrupt intent to obtain those two newly created allotments.
More so, both allotments were never publicly tendered as land available for lease.
If our good Minister for Lands and Physical Planning is concerned about land-grabbing and wants to continue cleaning up his department’s corrupt maladministration, then the above is a good one to investigate before the two allotments are sold, I can bet you my one toea.

Lawrence Billy
Hospital Hill
Lae