Land sale

In a media conference yesterday afternoon, Mr Koim said they followed every legal process to sell the land after no favourable response from the Kundiawa Gembogl District Development Authority.

He clarified that former Minister for Agriculture John Simon had verbally agreed with former MP for Kundiawa Gembogl Willie Onguglo to set up a cold storage facility on the land portion in question.

The Kundiawa DDA then set up the storage facility at the value of more than K2m to help farmers in the district to sell their produce in Port Moresby.

These were monies she took for the sale of a piece of land which she never owned.

Girigi Goasa Mose made representations to the owners of JDM Ltd that she was selling land at Taurama for K150,000 in 2009.

Acting Judge Nicholas Miviri sentenced the 47-year-old mother-of-four to 4 years in jail with hard labour today after he convicted her on 12 July for misappropriating K120,000.

Mose falsely pretended to act on behalf of her family and clan to sell a piece of customary land in Taurama, known as Odahara, Portion 2763c – 2765c.