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in the revenue, so when the opportunity comes we have to grab it . We’ll fix up small thingslater. He also said that there will be other big projects coming up in Wewak. Projects like;! Asian Restaurant in Town! Wewak town be shifted to Angoram District! Relocation of Murik Lakes people to a new land area! International Airport and an International Wharf to be built at Murik lakes area at themouth of Sepik River.! Completion of the Highway from Madang to Wewak crossing over Sepik River.The spinoffs were not well organised by the people from Sepik. Lack of liaison between theProvincial Government and the local people to arrange for the local people to provide spinoffs.Since Provincial Government itself was not ready to take on board SST. It was a forced move tobring SST into the province.Sir Hugo will have another factory coming up soon to process the by-catch from small fish andalso coming up is his sausage factory. For time being Sir Hugo will produce sausage from theimported meat first from Mumeng in Morobe province until he has his own cattle farm here inWewak.Road sealing is a target from Turubu to Angoram and a 3.2 million kina will be committed forthat. That is to cater for K1 million from cocoa to be produced in Angoram and transported toWewak.A senior Provincial Government figure:1.5 million for SST was put in by the National not the Provincial Government at the groundbreaking, in behalf of the ESPG. But because the ESPG has not put in anything, they got noshares, and so they’ve seen no dividends at all, whereas SBA and ANGO and its other investorshave. Sepik Seafood—Sir Hugo has not paid anything. He offered 150,000 in K1 shares for thedeed to the land and this as never given. The Windjammer sale was the same arrangement; infact he was presented with a show cause notice because he’s paid nothing at all to the provincialgovernment for the Windjammer. If you say again that .the Windjammer was supposed to offershares form his company for the hotel and he never has…yes, he never has…how do you getaway with that? …Hugo is working behind the prime minister you see…Hugo is definitelypaying some people some money. Windjammer is definitely making money and Sir Hugo getsout to Australia every two weeks with about 20,000 kina in his pocket and that’s from people inMoresby who have given me hard evidence. 20,000 kina every two weeks! And when he gets toport Moresby Ive got sources that say this money when he gets to port Moresby is sharedbetween people that he knows, he hands out. That’s the same kind of arrangement with thesesea products, sea products was done in the same manner, Hugo was supposed to offer 1 kinashares for about 350,000 shares to the government and up to now he hasn’t paid anything. He’ssupposed to be looking after the people of the East Sepik. …Sir Hugo is a real crook, a realcrook and enough people that I know who have had dealings with him, he’s really a broker, he’snot a millionaire, he has no money, he’s the front used by certain people and he serves them,they use Hugo to raise money, they turn around and pay him some commission and they get outthe biggest share of the money. ..there are manufacturing and things planned, there are otherfinanciers coming in, and what Hugo does is he represents the financiers, sets up the plan, andas soon as he gets things running, they give him a hefty commission, and as soon as he gets thathe moves on and does another thing. So this is how he was involved with this SST thing, andnow the Windjammer, and then he’ll move onto the cannery thing, and after that the meatcanning plan. …Not directly, he was involved indirectly with SST….SIL? …Kevin Conrad wasdealing with a lot of our political leaders here, lots of former politicians, he has a lot of dealings127