Nochmal die Nachricht von vor ein paar Tagen. Darauf wurde nicht wirklich eingegangen, obwohl darin einige wie ich meine interessante Infos stecken. Liest man sich das vorgehen von Morumbi in Avaipa durch, so sehe ich das Unternehmen hier auf dem Holzweg. Ich halte es für einen großen Meilenstein, wenn das ABG sein eigenes Mining Gesetz veröffentlich. Wird hier doch auch geregelt, wer Verträge mit Rohstoffunternehmen schließen darf -das ABG - die Landeigner und vielen weiteren Details. aktuelle Einschätzung: Wir befinden uns in einer sehr heiklen Lagen, Momis möchte den nächsten Schritt machen. Allerdings werden dabei die Forderungen bestimmter Interessengruppen nicht berücksichtigt. Diese könnten noch negativ auffallen... Interessant finde ich auch, warum gerade in Nord Bougainville das erste Forum abgehalten wurde. Meiner Meinung nach deshalb, weil sich in diesem Gebiet die stärksten Wiedersacher befinden. Damit wollte man diesen Personen zeigen, dass ihre Meinung nicht die Meinung des Volkes ist. Sie also mit einer Destabilisierung der akt. Lage dem eigenen Volk schaden. http://asopa.typepad.com/asopa_people/2012/12/...pa-mining-story.html Morumbi, Michael Aite & the Avaipa mining story LEONARD FONG ROKA | Supported by the Jeff Febi Writing Fellowship Lindsay SempleCANADA-BASED BUSINESSMAN Lindsay Semple (pictured) is no new face on Bougainville. During the formative years of the Autonomous Bougainville Government (ABG) he was in the province with his own company, Invincible Resources. This is when he created the controversial Bougainville Resources Development Corporation (BRDC) which would own 70% of the island’s resources. But this time, he has come with a new face, Morumbi Resources Inc. But it’s not so new because it has the same people clearing the path for Lindsay Semple: former Bougainville Revolutionary Army leader, Sam Kauona, and PNG Highlander and PNGDF soldier turned businessman, Philip Dari. The attraction for these opportunists goes back to Bougainville Copper Limited (BCL) days. Since the 1980s there had been a moratorium on exploration in Bougainville with the exception of the Special Mining Lease (SML) on which the mine is located. As the crisis was erupting, the moratorium was extended over the whole island, and this has never been changed. So dangerous fools are now running after this opportunity, or perhaps mirage. In the search for landowner approval, Sam Kauona and Philip Dari, have developed relationships and registered complicated landowner companies with the Isina, Kompani, Avaipa, Atamo, Kawasia, Karato and Korovi people. Michael AiteIn the Avaipa area, Sam Kauona connected with Michael Aite (pictured). Aite had been a government community affairs officer since the 1970s and, by the time of the peace process, he and Sam Kauona were members of the Bougainville Peoples’ Congress (BPC) a political party led by the late President Joseph Kabui. During the early days of the ABG - Invincible Resources relationship it was said that Lindsay Semple gave K20 million as a free gift to the people of Bougainville which was squandered within the perimeters of the BPC-controlled Bougainville administration. But, to the surprise of the people, Morumbi Resources Inc is now running after this ‘free gift’. According to most Avaipa people, Michael Aite and Sam Kauona have formalised many things about mining in the Mainoki section of Avaipa - specifically Mt Sugarloaf locally known as Katavi. The pair covered a large area from Katavi to the head of the Asimana River in their potential mining block. This is the whole mountain backbone of the Crown Prince Range behind Avaipa and nearly the size of the Panguna special mining lease. The intention is that it be explored and mined by Morumbi Resources Inc. Without formally meeting the people in June 2012, Sam Kauona and Michael Aite had some locals from Siuema village clear a jungle land patch for an exploration camp in the mountains of Siuema near the head of the Asimana River. This sent shockwaves across Avaipa. Later on Lindsay Semple and Sam Kauona visited Siuema to formalise agreements for land use in the exploration area. According to informants, the visit was unheralded so errand boys were ordered to fetch the chiefs to sign documents they knew nothing about. On the next visit (still in June) came Semple and the New Guinean, Philip Dari, to formally sign agreements to give the go-ahead for Avaipa exploration. But to the surprise of the gathering, Lindsay Semple asked the meeting to sign an agreement he said was to do with assistance to agricultural development in the Avaipa area. A row broke out but the people were calmed and the paper was signed in the belief this was an agricultural development assistance agreement. Locals claim they are yet to receive a copy. Weeks after the signing the paper with Semple and Dari, the people were told what they had signed was an agreement for the exploration and mining of their mountains by Morumbi Resources, for which Aite was the agent on the ground. Michael Aite’s committees were also surprised because they had been informed by Aite that they were working for an agriculture-oriented development project. Aite was soon summoned to an all-Avaipa meeting in Paruparu to sort out the problem. The meeting was told the mining proposals by Morumbi were to reciprocate the K20 million given to Bougainville by Lindsay Semple. According to Aite, his master Semple borrowed the K20 million from a Russian source as a loan and gave it to the ABG. Now the financier was running after the money and the government of Bougainville ought to repay it. Since the ABG has no money, mining was the only way to help repay the loan as agreed by the ABG under the leadership of the late Joseph Kabui. The gathering hit back, saying the K20 million, as all Bougainville knows, was said by Semple to be a ‘free gift’ to the people. Aite was told he had no right ushering Semple, Dari and Kauona into Avaipa because he was not a chief. There was no policy giving people like Aite and Kauona approval to drag foreigners into Bougainville. To the people of Avaipa, where the late President was a citizen, Semple and Kauona are considered to be responsible for his death because of “their selfish hunger for money”. Many harsh words were said about them and Philip Dari. Later Aite was asked: “Have you people compensated the late President Joseph Kabui for killing him?” Aite said nothing but broke into tears as his nephew rushed into the meeting with a tomahawk to behead him, but was stopped. The meeting told Aite not to invite “the three rascals” into Avaipa for, if he does, he will rot in the Crown Prince Range with Semple. So far, the Morumbi Resources team has been absent from the Avaipa because of the threat. The people will not soon offer a welcome to any operations by Morumbi. |