There is a new twist to the Hiri PNG LNG landowners benefits. A few years ago an Interim “Hiri Special Purpose Authority”, was established with a board and an acting CEO.
After the 2017 national elections, that board was replaced and a permanent Hiri SPA was established, and of all persons, JOEL OLI (Sam Pepena’s scams partner at Konebada Petroleum Park) is now appointed as the new CEO. Joel Oli is notorious in the past for scamming PNGBC and ended up in Bomana prison.
Now he and a new corrupt board are going to be in control over multi-millions of Kina of PNG-LNG landowners Development money. And they have already planning multimillion contracts to their friends and families for multimillion kickbacks.
The biggest losers will be the PNG LNG people. The Government must step in now and put a stop to this massive corruption at Hiri SPA. Persons with a known criminal conviction should not be placed in a position to manage innocent people’s millions of Kina.