Downtown Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea. Photo: RNZ / Johnny Blades
Papua New Guinea's largest superannuation fund has told government departments renting office spaces in buildings it owns that they are going to be locked out as long as outstanding rent is not paid.
The chairman of Nambawan Super Reg Monagi said the fund was owed $US44 million dollars in back rent.
The newspaper The National reported him saying the lockouts would start immediately.
Monagi said Nambawan Super was aware the government had allocated $US70 million to reduce arrears in its supplementary budget for this year, and he asked for these funds be used to settle the long overdue rental arrears.
He said the Nambawan Super was reluctantly conducting the lockout, knowing that the workers who would be affected were their own members, but he said there had been too many broken commitments to settle the arrears over the years.
