Yamasombi ordered eviction

NCD and Central Divisional Commander, Donald Yamasombi, informed Loop PNG that he approved the eviction at Gordons.

Yamasombi who met with the evictee’s of Section 95 allotment 6 yesterday, said he had issued the approval after being presented with documents by opposing the party of the tenants, which he states was in order.

“The orders when cited seemed to be in order. There was a Court Order and there was also a summary warrant which enables police to move upon the preises to carry out eviction.

“Those were in place so obviously I issued instruction for that eviction to be caried out.”

Despite issuing the circular that all evictions will be shelved from December 22nd to January 7th 2018, the eviction still went ahead.

Yamasombi said the eviction is part of a long list of evictions orders they currently have been requested to enforce.

“We have a lot of evictions in the city. We have customary land evictions, we have properties under National Housing Corporation for eviction, we also have state leases where people have duplicate titles and so what we have is so immense.

“We have eviction issues left-right and centre so there has been a number of them I have signed off for eviction and that is one of them,” said Yamasombi.

He said it was unfortunate that the eviction was done just before Christmas and has asked the legal advisor of the evictees to pursue the matter through court.

“If the councils representing their clients did their job diligently we wouldn’t run into this issue. What’s presented to us by one party and if we do find that the dates are valid and all documents are in order, we are enforcers of the law, we will enforce as per orders from the court,” he said.

Meanwhile Lucy Agen and Cecilia Sam are currently seeking a restraining order to stop further actions by the police.

 

 

 

Author: 
Cedric Patjole