‘Audit all public lands’

Thank you for printing my letter concerning the proposed lease of public land in Chalan Piao, Lot # 024-I03.

The Department of Public Lands has scheduled a meeting with my mother and her attorney.

Your paper may want to let the people know what happened to this piece of property. Specifically: Why was this land (belonging to the public) divided into five different parts? Who authorized the action? Furthermore, after discovery of (building) encroachment into public land, what penalties (if any) were administered to the builder and surveyor?

In view of recent OPA finding regarding financial matters at MPLA and MPLT, our leaders may want to expand OPA’s audit to include ALL public lands on our three major islands under MPLC’s (the original public land office) watch.

I urge the DPL to set the record straight and do what is just for the people and make it right for my family.

In the words of the late George Bernard Shaw: “We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future.”

[B]Joseph Cepeda Reyes[/B]
[I]via e-mail[/I]