DEFENCE LAND DEAL LANDS CORRUPT DUMA K61.5 MILLION TO GO INTO 2017 ELECTIONS
by JOHNSON OMBUNPAI In 2012 the O'Neil - Dion Government passed a NEC resolution asking the Department of Defense to relocate Murray Barracks. In 2014 both URP Leader and Mt Hagen MP William Duma and Chairman of Central Supplies and Tenders Board (CSTB) philip Eludeme went out to Manu Manu outside Port Moresby and got some land. Philip Eludeme got 20 hectares (ha) and MP William Duma got 800 hectares. These were old farming land thus there were state lands this saw both men apply to government to get these lands. They then collaborated in the last 2 years to sell those land to the Department of Defense. The Department of Defense only acquired approximately K20 million to purchase those lands. This saw their close friend Defense Minister Dr Fabian Pok come into the scene. Duma and Eludeme cooked up a scheme to sell those Manu Manu lands to the Department of Defense. Subsequently Duma became was appointed Minister for Public Enterprises so the scheme w