Lae evictions 2021

The inquiry into the National Housing Corporation evictions in Lae continues, with chairman Gary Juffa saying the committee met this week to further its mandated public sector reform agenda.

“Our proceedings so far are starting to show signs of deterioration of any public service housing agenda by the State through NHC,” Juffa stated.

On Monday April 26^th, Lin will have an exclusive informal Parliamentary Committee hearing in Port Moresby with the Special Parliamentary Committee on Public Sector Reform & Service Delivery (SPCPSR&SD).

She was invited by committee chairman, Gary Juffa.

The committee would like to hear her side of the story.

It has been alleged that in 2013, Lin put up a deposit on a few NHC properties in Lae, but cannot trace nor recover her deposits.

The chair of the committee, Gary Juffa, said NHC has been cooperating with the Special Parliamentary Committee on Public Sector Reform & Service Delivery.

Dubious dealings within the National Housing Corporation have been conducted –unchecked – over the years, resulting in average Papua New Guineans losing their homes to buyers who were not even tenants of the property in question.

KC2 director, Mei Lin, has distanced herself from the March 23^rd Cormorant St eviction at Lae’s Cassowary Road, saying she was not behind it.

Her contractors were accused of forcing out tenants and moving their personal belongings out. They were also standing guard after the evictions and further put up fences to guard the property.