Papua New Guinea Government’s shame

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Papua New Guinea Government’s shame

PORT MORESBY: Shame to the Government. Education Department’s employees are expected to be locked out of their offices on Monday (Oct 31, 2022)  because  of outstanding rentals totaling K39 million.

Grand Columbia Ltd v, the owner of the building, issued a notice of the lockout to the department yesterday (Oct 27, 2022).

It said that in the past 24 months, only two months’ rent was received “and significant rent remains outstanding as far back as 2017, 2018, 2019 and 2022.

The shameful news break for the Government was reported by The National:

Staff facing lockout

October 28, 2022The NationalMain Stories

EDUCATION Department employees are expected to be locked out of their offices at FinCorp Haus in Port Moresby on Monday, because of outstanding rentals totalling K39 million.
Grand Columbia Ltd (GCL), the owner of the building, issued a notice of the lockout to the department yesterday.
It said that in the past 24 months, only two months’ rent was received, “and significant rent remains outstanding as far back as 2017, 2018, 2019, and 2020”.
Education secretary Dr Uke Kombra yesterday said the Finance Department was responsible for paying the rentals.
“If the gates are locked, what will we do?” he said.
Attempts to get a comment from Finance Secretary Dr Ken Ngangan were unsuccessful.
The company in a statement said it initially gave the Government until Oct 3 to pay the K39 million, or provide an assurance that it would pay. But it did not receive any response from the Government.
It extended the deadline to Monday.
The statement said the company “has been patient and loyal over the last five years and borne the cost of financing the state’s failure to pay its rent”.
According to media reports, this would be the fifth government office to be locked out due to outstanding rental bills.
Departments and agencies locked out of their offices this year included the National Statistical Office (NSO), Finance and National Planning, Petroleum and Energy and the Internal Revenue Commission.

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