CSTB

Juffa queried the hike in income taxes and the reduction of funding for health and education which are the two vital services the ordinary Papua New Guineans deserved.

He said the Government was punishing legitimate tax payers and allowing tax evaders to get away scot free.

He further added that the promise for increase in funding to provinces is totally misleading as Provinces never got their functional grants on time and many public servants were paid but unable to deliver their services due to no funding.

Polye said China Harbour Engineering company had done defective and substandard work on the phase one construction of the Lae Tidal Basin.

He was commenting on a media report which cited CHEC likely to be engaged in the Waigani to Badihagwa-Hanuabada road project. 

He added that the wharf work cost the taxpayers’ nearly K1 billion.

Polye doubted whether CSTB had done due diligence and strict assessment in the screening process, saying if not, CSTB is incompetent.