IVANGOI High School in the remote Okapa district of Eastern Highlands was closed for an indefinite period over a compensation demand by a landowner. The landowner, one David Tagindo told this paper yesterday that the Education Department has illegally used his land for the past 20 years having not acquired the right to use his land through proper means. He stated that he has a 99 year agriculture lease of the identified portion 160 of the land and that he has had 20 of those 99 years stolen from him. The Department of Lands confirmed that an agriculture land lease for the mentioned period was leased to Tagindo on May 15, 1975. Mr Tagindo said that the Eastern Highlands Provincial Government established the high school in 1993 without his consent and that further attempts by him to stop their work on the school was only hindered by administrators avoiding him and false promises. “It is because of the school and the Eastern Highlands government’s lack of acknowledgement of my case that I have resort to closing the school until such a time that I am paid for the use of my land ,”said Mr Tagindo. Tagindo entered the school last Thursday, changed the locks to the school gates and put up a notice of the school’s discontinuation indefinitely. Acting Eastern Highlands provincial administrator Bill Kavanamur has asked for a swift resolution to this issue and has directed his office to gather the relevant documents and begin resolving Mr Tangido’s land woes.
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