Special Parliamentary Committee to question National Housing Corporation
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Garry Juffa … intends to question NHC
Special Parliamentary Committee to question National Housing Corporation
PORT MORESBY: Papua New Guineans have varied unabated issues with the National Housing Corporation (NHC).
And they will surely be monitoring what Oro Governor and Special Parliamentary Committee (SPC) on public sector reform and service delivery chairman Garry Juffa unearths, if any, when he questions NHC on various issues that are close to the heart of the people.
Here is what The National reported:
Juffa intends to question NHC
April 19, 2021The NationalNational
ORO Governor and Special Parliamentary Committee (SPC) on public sector reform and service delivery chairman Garry Juffa says he intends to question National Housing Corporation (NHC) officials on dealings in State property and the eviction of NHC tenants in Lae.
“I was recently astonished to learn that the NHC had handed over a Lae property – a State asset – to a company purportedly to set tle a debt,” he said in a media statement.
“The property in question, in Cassowary Road, is meant to be public service housing, and I want to know why public servants have been kicked out of their homes to please commercial interests. Where will these public servants go now?
“Will the NHC provide alternative accommodation?
“There is a proper process for the disposal of State assets and it appears that they failed to follow in this case.
“I also want to know whether similar conduct had occurred in relation to other properties, and whether other public servants had suffered similarly.” Juffa said he had been advised by Lands Minister and Lae MP John Rosso that the purported debt was K1 million and the property title was transferred to KC2 a company in Port Moresby.
He added that the SPC, in order to protect the public sector and public servants and support their efforts to deliver services, would consider every aspect of the deal, including whether misconduct had occurred. “Public service housing is a way to enhance the quality of the public service and ultimately the delivery of services to the nation,” he said.
“There is already a shortage of public service housing.
“Many public servants are reduced to living in settlements and other unsuitable accommodation, yet, they are unfairly expected to deliver high-quality work.”
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