Ratepayers need to mobilise

IT is high time the ratepayers of Port Moresby set up an action group to launch a class action law suit against the National Capital District and the state.
Billions of kina are lost in property values with ghettos being allowed to flourish unchecked by the city officials.
In all bona fide suburbs of Port Moresby you can see the rapid expansion of ghettos impinging and devaluing real estate values.
This is happening at light speed with no action from the city authorities – filthy tucker boxes with betel nut vendors along roadsides in every suburb, sick dogs roaming the streets eating off human waste and rubbish piling up around these vending spots.
High covenant housing areas are being reduced to ghettos at the invasion of these vagrants and their wildlife offspring.
Port Moresby’s most expensive real estate is also not immune, with wantoks setting up rubbish dumps and betel nut vending tables on Davetari Drive and other high value areas such as Port Road etc.
All these are being allowed to go unchecked by city authorities.
These vagrants are causing massive property devaluations and reputational damage to our investments and suburbs.
Angau Drive, once a prettiest road in Port Moresby, is now reduced to a rubbish dump.
The ratepayers of the city should initiate collective action immediately and hold all those in City Hall accountable for their property devaluations and losses.
The ratepayers should raise the issue directly with the city management as they have failed the city.
Port Moresby is fast becoming the Pacific’s rubbish dump with urban drift out of control while politicians give lip service to the ratepayers.
Meanwhile politicians encourage more and more of these vagrants into the city for the vote.

Balimo Mangi,
Boroko NCD