Chairman and co-owner of Sixth Estate Limited, Paul Paguk has spoken out about the recent backlash on social media about the ownership of the land portion at Morata in NCD by his company and many other things.
Mr. Paguk stated that the accusations on the social media are outrageous and that the keyboard warriors must be careful not to spread false accusations.
Speaking of the stay order that was served to the company to cease the eviction exercise, Paguk believes that they have no grounds to stop the evictions.
“I don’t understand the issue that the NCDC is trying to bring across. The court has already decided that the eviction has to take place and that has already been done,” he said.
He claimed that case has already been dismissed and the decisions that were passed are now being enforced.
Paguk further added that three decisions were passed in 2020 determining the ownership and two other court directives relating to the eviction. One was the decision of ownership, which was established by the court that the state owns the land and secondly the eviction itself.
“Three senior supreme court judges made a decision on the 26th of February 2020 in my favour, granted that we give them time till March 2022 to vacate the land,” Paguk claimed.
He further stating that any ruling form the courts below that of the Supreme Court should be null and void.
Meanwhile, there have been conflicting statements coming from the opposite end of the spectrum, with Chairman of the Morata 1 community, Romney Tengere stating that the land was acquired through illegal means, hence their persistence in pursuing the matter in court.
Tengere claimed that he had documents from the court proceedings that outlined the fraudulent deals that were made to acquire the land from the Land Titles Commission.
He also spoke of how the settlers came to settle on portion 2773, through transactions with the Kaivaga Clan of Baruni and he maintains that they had been granted user rights to settle on the land.