STOP HOUSE STEALERS FROM STEALING HOUSES

The nation has not been aware that there has been a house stealing racket in Papua New Guinea at the hands of corrupt workers in the National Housing Corporation and now the National Housing Estates Limited.

It is not necessary for the stealers to be workers in these organizations as long as they have accomplices who can delete houses from the register and divert rent for a number of years.

The problem has been that in the National Housing Corporation over recent years, it has been possible for tenants to buy the houses that they rent. It could have been set up by the house stealers. 

It also meant that the NHC houses could be bought and sold. It meant that the NHC houses could be stolen even today with the aid of a fake title back dated to the years when the houses were sold.

There is a small core of house stealers in this country. Prime targets are elderly tenants with no children or children who do not have a close relationship with their tenant parents. 

It takes little for a house stealer to move in perhaps claiming to be a friend of the son. They never leave. They move more tenants in and slowly push the original tenant out.

The king house stealer in Port Moresby has been Alan Baragu who tried to steal the unit in which I was staying looking after the old man who was tenant. He and his rubbish wife tried all sorts of tricks to push me out. I was HIV positive, mentally ill, womaniser who infects women. But they failed. 

The man claimed that the old tenant had a son who stole K19,000 from him. He was taking the unit to cover the debt. But it was the unit leased by the father !!! It was not owned by the father. Who cares? The unit was being stolen and sold with a back-dated fake title.

An old lady down the street told me that neighbours accused her 20 year old son of stealing K150,000 from them. They chased him away and told her they wanted the house as payment.

There has to be an official audit of houses held by the Housing Corporation. The auditors many find hundreds of houses no longer on the register. 

They may find hundreds of houses that have no record of rental payment. It is because the rent has been corruptly diverted into private accounts.