Oil Search Managing Director, Peter Botten, said this when questioned why the TCS was used to fund projects outside provinces in which resource projects were in.
The question was raised by Madang Open MP, Bryan Kramer, who said the original intention of the TCS was to provide road infrastructure for project areas.
“We’ve adopted a practice now where projects which were supposed to be expanded in rural development in the project area are creeping up in Port Moresby,” said Kramer.
Botten said that decision was the Government’s prerogative.