After resolving a long standing issue in relation to the land which is being used by a number of stakeholders for transmitter sites in Colo-i-Suva, the Permanent Secretary for Justice said it has been evident that only a handful of landowners were benefiting from ad-hoc deals in the past.
After almost 20 years of negotiations, the parties have now signed an MOU which will allow the stakeholders who have transmitter sites up in Nakobalevu, to use the village access road to reach the sites without any problems.
It will also allow the Fiji Electricity Authority (FEA) to take power lines right up to the transmitter sites.
This would see a huge reduction in diesel consumption by the stakeholders, as they have been using diesel generators to power up their transmitter sites for years due to no electricity supply.
The facilitator of the negotiations and the Permanent Secretary for Justice Colonel Pio Tikoduadua said some people had taken advantage of the situation in the past by just trying to get some money out of the stakeholders with the ad-hoc deals.
Colonel Tikoduadua said the return to the Colo-i-Suva landowners is now huge, apart from monetary benefits, the infrastructure in terms of roads and electricity is also being developed.
Colonel Tikoduadua had earlier facilitated the talks between the stakeholders and the owners of the land at Natadola.
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