A couple of extracts from the ABG Draft Hansard for Friday September 7th - President Momis speaking;
"Thank you Assistant Speaker, Hon Members I am compelled to make a statement on the events of Thursday afternoon during which the house could not resume proceedings after the lunch time suspension due to a lack of quorum, when the members of the highest law making institution in the land chose to put the interests of a foreign company (RTG Mining) over those of the people who gave them the mandate to represent them in this honourable house.
Mr Speaker, while the ABG and Panguna landowners are in one accord with regard to reopening the Panguna mine, they are poles apart when it comes to who should redevelop the Panguna mine. As far as the ABG is concerned, RTG is not the right company to reopen Panguna.
Mr Speaker, let me now turn to clarifying the ABG's position on RTG mining. RTG is a company that has shown total disrespect to the people of Bougainville and just as much disregard to the Bougainville Mining Law. Instead of coming through the door, it chose to break and enter through the window by going direct to Mr Philip Miriori and a few landowners in its attempt to obtain exploration rights over the Panguna area. Since its force landing in the Panguna area, RTG has been bribing firstly, Mr Philip Miriori and more recently Mr Lawrence Daveona and former executives of the SML Landowner Association, who previously supported BCL, when the ABG and landowners were negotiating the reopening of Panguna Mine with BCL and the national government from 2012-2015."
Plenty more where that came from. It wasn't a bed of roses for BCL in what was said, to be honest, but RTG copped an absolute drubbing.
RTG Price at posting:
11.0¢ Sentiment: None Disclosure: Not Held
