A Papua New Guinea NGO says a continued delay by the government in implementing recommendations from an inquiry into a controversial land lease system raises questions over its commitment to fighting corruption.
In September the prime minister Peter O'Neill tabled a report in parliament from a commission of inquiry which found more than 90 percent of Special Agricultural Business Leases were illegally obtained from customary landowners.
The government has signalled it is setting up a taskforce to consider the recommendations.
But Effrey Dademo of the NGO Act Now says the inquiry's recommendations that the leases be cancelled should have been implemented by now.
"I don't know why the government is delaying this. I don't know why they have to set up another Task Force (O'Neill has announced a task force) which will look into the recommendations of the commission and make their own recommendations which is just a waste of time. There's already been money spent on a commission of inquiry that has produced something."
Effrey Dademo.
