Ramu NiCo landowners promised royalty money

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Landowners of the Ramu nickel mine in Madang are expected to receive their royalty payments on Friday, Usino-Bundi MP Jimmy Uguro says.
Uguro addressed his people over the weekend, saying Mining Minister Johnson Tuke was expected to arrive this week.
“You must have good plans on how to use your royalty,” he told the people. “You must plan to use it to change your families, clans and living standards and don’t go to clubs.”
In May, Tuke reassured the executives of four landowner associations of the Ramu NiCo project and the Madang administration during a meeting that landowners would receive their outstanding royalty payments. Ramu NiCo community affairs manager Albert Tobe said earlier that the company was also ready to pay royalties to the landowners as soon as the State gave it the clearance to do so.
Meanwhile, Uguro said now that he had won three Supreme Court decisions, he was focused on delivering government services at the highest level possible. To name a few in the pipeline, Uguro said his district development authority bought a machine to produce roofing iron which was on its way from China.
Uguro said the machines would be set up at the district’s capital at Walium and would produce roofing iron that would be distributed free to the people of Usino-Bundi.