Moresby North-East MP, John Kaupa has stated that the 2-Mile Hill eviction should serve as a warning to other illegal settlers who are becoming safety and security threats to the genuine residents in the city.
Mr. Kaupa was addressing the local media yesterday at a media conference in Port Moresby, saying: “Continuous inhumane behaviors and criminal activities have led to the eviction exercise against the settlers in the 2 Mile Hill area.”
Mr. Kaupa stressed that it is a wake-up call for the other settlements in the city to change their way of living now or move out.
“The city belongs to the working-class people, and it is a metropolitan city where every Papua New Guinean lives, even the international communities are living, so we must be law-abiding citizens.”
“If you can’t follow the law and continue doing like the 2-Mile Hill settlers, as an NCDC Management authority, we see that safety is not there, then we will move you out,” Mr. Kaupa clarified.
“We are not going to stop. We will continue this exercise into my electorate and into mostly Moresby North-West.”
Mr. Kaupa said that Erima flyover-bridge in his electorate is the next settlement to be evicted, just “You are forcing yourself to move out from your settlements by doing all the criminals’ activities, not me as your mandated leader,” he added.