What PNG's award winning journalist and blogger Scott Waide feels about the eviction?

 1. The land belongs to a fund owned by Papua New Guineans.

2. The fund has taken steps to develop the land. It will provide better housing and PLANNED development. Something desperately needed in PNG. It has taken a lot of guts to do this. Something the MPs in NCD should be doing together as per concepts developed by Dame Carol Kidu.

3. People were given warnings - Two years of warnings, in fact.

4. Portions of the land were sold illegally.

5. Officers in the Lands Department took advantage of the weak administration.

6. The PM should not be setting a precedence by trying to intervene. It opens up a can of worms. If you pay and resettle, are you willing to do the same for every other ILLEGAL settlement?

7. If the PM is going to intervene, we need to solve the Manam, Bulolo and Catarets issues as well. We need to find land for them too. These are genuine issues that need attention.

8. DON'T BURN MY FLAG.

Footnote: Yes Prime Minister James Marape, what are we doing to help the Manam and Cartarets Islanders?