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Nearly 5,000 people still need to evacuate illegal settlements in Papua New Guinea’s capital Port Moresby or police will forcibly evict them.
The Bush Wara area has about 1,000 homes and its owners, pension provider Nambawan Super Limited, plan to develop it into a suburb with appropriate communal facilities.
Nambawan has owned the 200-hectare land for more than 30 years and has obtained court approval to evict the squatters.
The site is estimated to be worth about K90 million (about US$23 million).
The government advised in late April that the settlers had until mid-July to leave the site or face forcible eviction.
this The Courier Reportedly, only ten families left voluntarily.
Central Police Chief Inspector Peter Guinness said police had been conducting outreach over the past three months to ensure settlers knew they needed to comply with court orders or risk being forcibly evicted.
“We encourage settlers to use the time left now to dismantle construction materials and move personal belongings so they can be used elsewhere,” he said.
Nambawan chief executive Paul Sayer said in total about 5,000 people would be affected.
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