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O'NEILL IS ALL TALK AND NO ACTION ON CUSTOMARY LAND GRAB BY FOREIGNERS

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PETER O'NEILL SAYS NOT TO SELL YOUR LAND YET HE WANTS CUSTOMARY LANDOWNERS TO DO THE VERY THINGS THAT MAKE IT EASIER TO GRAB THEIR LAND NIUGINI OUTLOOK One of the best ways to take away people's land is to keep them dumb and stupid about land laws and land rights. Keeping people ignorant about land legalities also allows landowners to trick those who think they are buying land when they're actually not. The only way we know of to sell land legally in PNG is to sell to the state. It may be possible under the law for natural born citizens to sell land to other natural born citizens but the way customary landowners are selling blocks of land around every city in PNG today is a scam if you think you now own a block of land. The law seems to point to the transaction as being a transfer of temporary rights to use the land, not actually to own it. Thus, the blockholders are not buying land. It is more like they are renting it. In nearly all cases, there are no legal pape