WHO OWNS THE LAND & NATURAL RESOURCES IN PAPUA NEW GUINEA?

By John Endemongo Kua

Hon. James Marape became the eight prime minister after deposing Peter O'Neill through a parliamentary coup d'etat on the 30 of May , 2019 and immediately outlined his vision to restore paradise in taking back control of the nation's economy which was firmly controlled by the minority one (1 ) percent of foreigners and and the largest control by investors in mining , oil and gas , agriculture , Forestry , manufacturing, finance and trade and commerce.

Unlike all his predecessors who were conditioned to an inferiority complex in accepting that business was best known and practiced by foreigners , he boldly pronounced his vision to transform the nation into the richest Christian black nation a vision which isn't far from the truth as we are predominantly Christian and exceedingly rich because of the fact land and natural resources is recognised as personal property of the indigenous inhabitants of the nation and will always remain that regardless of the political, social or economic status of the nation.

With the prime minister's mission statement we now look forward to the execution process with the low lying fruit which we can pick and the extractive resources in mining and oil and gas which is developed is a fairly attractive in that most of the mines and oil and gas was developed using skullduggery laws which were inconsistent with our constitutional laws and no amount of scholarly legal arguments can deny the fact that the resources were extracted illegally from the very beginning using devious means through paper transfers of ownership capitalising on the vulnerability of our legislative and administrative system.

Prime minister James Marape can now exercise the option to nationalise all mines and oil and gas fields that had operated under the unconstitutional laws and review and redistribute the benefits using the production sharing arrangement between the investors , landowners and the government.
The OK Tedi mine was a classic case of corporate fraud and negligence which culminated with legalised expropriation trough the Mining ( Ok Tedi Tenth Supplemental Agreement ) Bill 2013 - by the O'Neill which has yet to settle the issue of land owners and to compensate for environmental damages suffered by the inhabitants of the Ok Tri and fly River.

Some of the former prime minister's who had a hand in facilitating these fallacious laws such as Chan , Wingti , Morauta and O'Neill are still serving legislators who are probably guilty of their actions in retrospect and would come back out openly to restore resource ownership and management back to the landowners such what Sir Julius Chan had done after commissioning genocide against the Bougainville landowners using mercenaries and soldiers.

It is time to use our intellect and moral compass to take back what is rightfully ours without wasting anymore time.