Eviction

Community leader Don Mune says all they know is that NCDC had authorised this action to have the settlers vacate the land and move out as soon as possible as some development was going to take place.

Mune says he is disappointed that Governor Parkop would do such a thing by inviting other people like developers to come in the name of development while ordinary Papua New Guineans would suffer.

LOOP PNG understands settlers were given until today to pack up and move off the land they have occupied illegally.

Pari village is part of the Motu Koitabu area, traditional landowners of Port Moresby city just like Vabukori, Hanuabada, Kilakila, Tatana and Baruni.

Community leaders and individuals have expressed concern over the growing and out of control nature of illegal land grabbing of traditional motu-koita land by government, business and indivduals.