Fishy business. The Social Impact of SST.pdf - Act Now!

And as soon as they’d finished the ORD started investigating and they found that they askedthese gentlemen whose equipment this was grading the road, and one of these men is a churchgoer, so he told them SBA, he told them, and they cut him off. So now he’s bankrupt and hasn’tgot the money to run his station, and SBA has the money. Same with the new courthouse,supposed to be at Kreer heights, its all overgrown now. The man who got the contract had noequipment, so who did he subcontract but SBA, and so when the ORD found that out again, sonow, they’ve stopped it and nothings happening. …The Offshore Masters is going to be a realcannery, tuna, and they’re Thai and Malaysian , and what they do is they’re being given thedeed to the land, given what these companies will do is the old gov stoa is to be redone andthey’ll change the whole thing into a new government complex. That’s the deal. …theprovincial government is an investor then, but then others too, Sir Hugo in behalf of someoneelse of course, he’s definitely representing someone and they can give the deed away, they cando that, and he should know they cannot treat people like that…the cannery will be evenworse...the smell… FDC that is Taiwanese…the uh the waste....the contract was about buildinga pipe out to the sea, not to use boats…they would use pipes.Petrus Sagom, Prime Minister’s Project OfficerMr Petrus Sagom is an experienced Fisheries Officer with the department of Livestock andAgriculture. Since June 2004, he is now employed as Prime Misters’ Project Officer in Wewak.He is attached to the Prime Ministers’ Department.Speaking of some major physical and infrastructure developments in the province:• Turubu Road project – the National Government funded K100 000 for its feasibilitystudy• Yawasaro Road Project – its also counter-funded by the government and should beginsoon.• Yawasoro the SSTC plant was originally planned to be built there but logisticalproblems are more and have to bring it closer to the wharf. If they have to build the factory atYawasoro they have consider many things like wharf, transportation etc. Also they have somelandowner issues still outstanding so they moved to the present location. The company wantedto dealt with the government then to be involved in landownership issues do they just leased theland for the PNG Harbors Board. At Yawasoro there are many owners to the land and made theissues complicated.• At the present site – there is still dispute. The principle landowners are from KairuruIsland whose half family are at people are the Meni village. But the people of Kreer also claimownership to the land so again there are still complicated issues. The government did not needask them because this crown land.• The Extension of the Wewak Airport – the National and the Provincial Government areplanning to expand the size of the airport to international standard size. This will mean the CISwill be moved to some where we still looking for a suitable place to relocate the CIS.ES Province will experience some major developments project such as the SSTC and others stillin the pipeline and other agricultural such as the Cocoa Project in Angoram and mineralexplorations such as Freda Mining. We will have a busy wharf but we also need toaccommodate many flights in and out and especially some direct flights from overseas. We129