Belden Namah is not the only Papua New Guinean to get involved - TopicsExpress



          

Belden Namah is not the only Papua New Guinean to get involved with SABL (Special Agriculture Business Lease) nor the first to use cash crops as enticements to customary landowners to take away the rights to their own land. Around 1996, before there was any formal SABL policy, then Prime Minister Julius Chan agreed to a Filipino company coming to Collingwood Bay, Oro Province, under the pretence of establishing a coconut health drink factory that required clearing tens of thousands of hectares of undisturbed rainforest and establishing coconut plantations. Because the price of copra was low and more coconut plantations were not inspiring to the PNG government, the company made up the coconut sap health food drink scam. The real intent of the Filipino company was the same as with SABLs-to obtain all the timber on the land for free, and sell it for a giant profit. There was no actual financial mechanism to force establishment of the planned coconut plantations, which joined other dubious promises made by the company of shopping centres and golf courses, all basically given to entice the landowners to sign the agreement. That kind of scam is now institutionalised under the SABL (Special Agriculture Business Lease) concept as it is presently conceptualised. Here is background information for those who do not know the basics of SABL:
Posted on: Thu, 09 Oct 2014 21:05:40 +0000

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