Christian Life Centre obtained fraudulent land title from NHC

...the land. She was informed that it had been owned by the NHC since 1970. She duly attended the NHC office in Mount Hagen in December 1992 and paid a K500 fee to apply for the title. In March 1994, Janet Pepam Kepoli signed a contract of sale with the NHC but heard nothing further from them until December 1998....

Chief Justice slams police over failure to investigate former NHC boss John Dege

...Temu claims she genuinely thought she had legally acquired the lease from John Dege, NHC’s then Managing Director, and Gabriel Gore, the NHC’s then Principle Legal Officer. Temu argues ‘she was asked to pay K30,000 for the State Lease and to have the Transfer Deed done by the former Managing Director of NHC, Mr John Dege’. Unfortunately, the court notes,...

Red flagged company wins new Duran Farm contract

...been illegally awarded with no public tender. Minister Tkatchenko promptly cancelled the contracts, vowing at the same time he would ‘clean up NHC once and for all”. That clean up, its seems, has not extended very far. PNG Resources Corporation Limited has been variously owned by former Moresby North East MP, Labi Amaiu or his wife since 2003. Labi Amaiu...

Chinese Smuggling Ring Conspired with Customs and PNGDF Officers to Defraud the State

NHC Targets Grieving Widow in Illegal Sell Off to Foreign Businessperson

National Housing Estate on verge of liquidation

A recent Supreme Court decision has put the much maligned and corrupt State owned National Housing Estates Limited (NHEL) on the verge of liquidation, even as politicians continue to dabble in its affairs. Although the State, through its nominated shareholders, the Ministers for Housing and Finance, resolved to shut down the company through a voluntarily liquidation in 2017, that commitment...

Another Duplicate State lease raises more questions for the NHC and DoL

The National Housing Corporation and the Department of Lands are synonymous, not only with fraud, corruption and mismanagement, but also the impunity with which corrupt public officials are able to repeat the same scams over and over again. PNGi has previously highlighted many instances of the fraud taking place within the these government departments and we have repeatedly urged action...

Durand Farm: Dodgy Deals and Dashed Dreams

...Minister Peter O’Neill announced the project would be resurrected as a massive housing development for low and middle income earners, overseen by the National Housing Commission (NHC). Construction was initially handed over to a joint-venture led by a failed Australian builder, Kamran Samimi, and a Chinese company blacklisted by the World Bank. While that joint-venture failed to materialise, in 2015/2016...

Curtain Bros Litigation Deals Blow To Gummi Fridriksson and Paga Hill Estate

...government has proven much more forgiving. Paga Hill Development Company (PNG) Limited has been allowed to retain their lease over Paga Hill, at a discounted rate of rent. This generous posture allowed the company to forcefully evict NHC residents at Paga Hill, along with communities along the harbour foreshore. Many of the demolished homes notably lay outside the state lease...

Marape Removed NHEL Management Now He Should Investigate Them

...body responsible for building and maintaining public housing stock). NHEL was to operate on a commercial orientation, and take hold of many NHC properties. For years it operated under a blanket of fiscal secrecy, while allegations reverberated around on impropriety within. PNGi raised the alarm about various irregular deals NHEL was a party to. Then last week a new NHEL...

PM Marape please clean up the National Housing Corporation

...Justice Gavara-Nanu of acting in a ‘fraudulent and deceitful’ manner, after the NHC illicitly snatched the Iravela family home. Image: Dege used fraud and deceit the courts claim, in an attempt to sell off the Iravela family home. While Justice Canning accused the former NHC Managing Director of ‘sinister’ activity for his role in executing an attempted fraud. If successful...

PNGi 2018 – A Quick Review

...NHE Ltd is no more and John Dege and some of his cohorts are now under arrest. We wait to see if these developments signal broader changes in behaviour at the NHC. Perhaps the most infamous case of land fraud to hit the headlines in 2018 was the Manu Manu land scandals. The central role played by Ministers William Duma...

Fabian Pok: Leadership Tribunal Material

This man should not be in charge of the nation’s petroleum and energy wealth. That is the only conclusion a reasonable person could draw after a careful consideration of Dr Fabian Pok’s political career to date. Too strong a words? You decide. Dr Pok has been: Condemned by the Commission of Inquiry into the National Provident Fund. Based off an...

Petition to investigate outlaw organisation and its management

...the Lands Secretary signed off on the contract of sale and the transfer instrument for the sale between NHC and Remdy Investment Limited. On 24 March 2015, NHC Managing Director John Dege wrote to the Lands Secretary requesting he sign the contract of sale and transfer instrument, for the sale between the NHC and Remdy Investment Limited. It is unclear...

Taking from the poor to feed the rich: NHC and John Dege (Part III)

Taking from the poor to feed the rich: NHC and John Dege (Part II)

Taking from the poor to feed the rich: NHC and John Dege (Part I)

Rejoice! National Housing Estates Limited Is No More

...wind NHEL up. Notably its Directors have been “terminated forthwith”, that includes Kevin Ahipum, Michael Barobe, Luke Karepe and John Witne. The remaining staff will be absorbed back into the NHC. At least some sanity has prevailed, with the government deciding to liquidate the company and reabsorb its functions back into the NHC. Of course, we dont know the motivations...

National Housing Corporation: Still Rotten

PM’s Right Hand Man in Gabutu Palace Bonanza

...blog, ‘O’Neill backs up his lies with extreme violence,’ public statement, 31 July 2017, accessed on 2 September 2017 [2] In August 2017, the new housing Minister John Kaupa directed a major audit to be done by the office of the Auditor-General of both NHC and NHEL. “They are numerous court proceedings against NHC, and too many investigations ongoing that...