Settlers urged to cooperate with resettlement team

Settlers in Moresby Northeast electorate are being urged to cooperate with an urbanisation and resettlement team that will be visiting to assess land titles, says MP John Kaupa.
“As the city expands, our biggest challenges are the influx of people migrating to the city and settling wherever they wish.
“But the people must remember that in the city, you have the National Capital District Commission which is the governing institution that is responsible for matters of the city including issues facing settlements, so you cannot just settle wherever you wish.”
Kaupa, who is also the Minister for Housing and Urbanisation, has made a commitment to ensure that settlers in his electorate received titles to their plots of land.
He said his urbanisation office would take the lead in properly planning all urban settlements in collaboration with the NCDC and the Lands Department to ensure proper suburbs were established.
“We have identified several locations in the electorate where titles will be issued to settlers,” he said. “As I am speaking four titles are ready to be issued by Lands Minister Justin Tkatchenko.”
He said not all settlement dwellers have proper land titles and his district administration would work with the office of the governor and the Lands Department to ensure legal procedures were followed in establishing proper suburbs for all people living illegally in the electorate.