Whose business is it anyway?

I HAVE learnt that the Ahi Investment Ltd (AIL), an Ahi landowner company, has a 15 per cent shareholding in South Pacific International Container Terminal Ltd, which is built and situated in the Labu customary land territory and boundary.
The company represents the six Ahi villages who have no link whatsoever to the Lae Tidal Basin area, which is a traditional ground of the Labu people.
The AIL also has other three subsidiaries: Coastal Retail Services Ltd (100%), Riback Stevedoring Ltd (51%) and the Ahi Properties Ltd (100%), which provides enough opportunities to its incorporated villages.
Ahi Investment Ltd chairman George Gware presented a K1.7 million dividend payment in the form of six Toyota Coaster buses, six fully-kitted portable offices, and K20,000 to each of the six village association on Sept 27.
This got me thinking, as a young Labu pride, as to where is our so-called Labu Holdings Limited and its chairman and the board of management?
How much shareholding percentage do we have in the Lae Port and South Pacific International Container Terminal Ltd here at the Lae Tidal Basin as legitimate landowners?
Do we have a fiscal management and will our people be receiving their dividends too?
Is someone going to tell us?
While the Ahi are having their share of dividends and are successful through their landowner company AIL, which they established for the benefit of their children.
Now what about us the three Labu villages and our landowner company Labu Holdings?
Last time, when they were electing a new board of management there was rivalry between themselves. How are we going to strive without unity and understanding among ourselves for the success and the benefits of our people and our tribe?
Can we stand up together now to re-establish Labu Holdings and our birthright as legitimate landowners of the Lae Port and the Lae Tidal Basin area and get a fair share?
Labu Butu, Labu Miti and Labu Tale are just a few kilometres south from the lights of Lae City, across the Markham River, and yet we still live under our sago-thatch roofs without proper basic government services, unlike our neighbours at Salamaua?

Ni Kulawati