Dame Carol Kidu Arrest Threat And Assault

Dame Carol Kidu, Member of Parliament and Papua New Guinea's Leader of the Opposition was called to a community to help her constituents. In the process, she and other community members were physically abused by authorities.

Eviction orders had been given to a settlement community and to a public servants housing area. However the matter was still before the court at Appeal Stage when the eviction was odered yesterday morning.

The public servants and the settlers both have challenged the legitimacy of the Title that has been obtained by a company and the ethics of the procedural irregularities in obtaining the Title.

With them Dame Carol has consistently maintanied that the prime land should not be lost to the State and that a consortium of the State entities involved should be the in-country partner to the foreign developer (believed to be Hilton Hotels) not the present company holding the Title.

The relocation plan offered by the company is completely unacceptable. While Dame carol fought to stop the bulldozers the lawyers and leaders for both the public servants and the settlers were busy dealing with the legal matters and eventually obtained a Stay Order on Humanitarian grounds. The case will be heard tomorrow (Monday).