NCD roads

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.

Lohia Lahui, whose parents’ graves were metres away from the bulldozers, Vicky Davai who was protecting her dad’s grave and Boio Guba, whose one year old son was buried next to Lohia’s parents sat silently and refused to be moved.

An emotional Lohia told PNG Loop that his parents were buried on their land and he would not move them to some unknown land.

He says that the contractors never met with them and alleges that each of the families were told that they would be compensated,  which he says is “not on’’.

Shocked villagers moved in to stand in the path of the bulldozers which were sent in by the National Capital District Commission (NCDC) to clear up the plot to make way for a new road development.

PNG Loop observed angry villagers and emotional mothers and elders shouting at the contract workers to stop what they were doing and leave.

An NCD official, Temu Eli, spoke to the villagers trying to calm tensions but was told to leave by elders who say that there was no proper consultation with them to move the remains of their loved ones to Nine Mile.