Ministry of Lands and Mineral Resources still looking into the Savura Dam lease issue

The Minister for Lands Ashneel Sudhakar says that the Ministry is currently going through documents to ascertain the claims about the compensation paid with regards to the Savura Dam lease.

Sudhakar says that the Ministry will then respond accordingly.

This is after landowners had claimed that there was no compensation paid out for the Suva Water Supply Catchment Area located in Savura in Colo‑i‑Suva.

The iTaukei Land Trust Board CEO Tevita Kuruvakadua had earlier said that although the Savura Dam lease was issued 52 years ago, the annual lease payment has been reviewed from $2,643 previously to the current annual rate of $120,000.

The leased land which covers a total land area of 100.8 hectares is owned by five landowning units including Mataqali Solia (Navatuvula), Mataqali Rokotarotaro, Mataqali Valebure, Mataqali Daunivurevure and Mataqali Naisagavaki.

The iTaukei Land Trust Board had confirmed that a special water catchment lease was issued to the Government in 1967.

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