Philipsburg:--- Ousted Minister of Labour, Health, and Social Affairs Maria Buncamper Molanus and her husband Claudius Buncamper, Head of Maintenance of VROMI were one of the many people who received government long lease land two weeks ago. The Buncampers received another parcel of land situated on Pond Island just next to where they already have a plot of long lease land. The same parcel of land on Pond Island cost the Minister her Ministerial seat when she was facing a motion of non confidence.
According to decision taken by the outgoing Minister of VROMI Theodore Heyliger, a parcel of land was granted to "MARCLAU NV" on May 4, 2012. Based on the document SMN News received, the Head of Domain Affairs Maria van Zadelhof, Head of VROMI Louis Brown, and the Minister of VROMI Theodore Heyliger all signed off on the document on May 4, 2012. Just a few days after the United Peoples Party and Democratic Party government fell, the UP leader and his staff began working overtime to distribute government lease land and to grant licenses to their friends and cronies.
The documents state that the company MARCLAU NV submitted a request in May 2001 asking for said parcel of land in long lease to construct apartments, storage, and a retail shop. Sometime in 2008 the Executive Council took a decision to grant the Buncampers said parcel of land but the certificate of ad-measurement marked in a meet-brief 321/2008 could not be found. Therefore, the outgoing Minister of VROMI was asked to draft a substitute decision to grant Marclau NV the plot of land on long lease. The parcel of land measures 1000m2 and the annual rent will be Naf. 8,000.00 based on the Naf. 8.00 m2 which is corresponding to the value of the land at Naf.100.00 per m2.
It should be noted that on April 1, 2008, the Buncampers received a plot of land on Pond Island to which they sold the economic rights of the property for a whopping USD 3 million to Eco Green. It is the sale of economic rights of this property that cost Maria Buncamper Molanus her seat as a Minister of Health, Labour, and Social Affairs. Ever since then, the Prosecutor's Office confirmed on several occasions that they were going to investigate the case to see if the Buncampers had committed a crime. To date that investigation has not gotten off the ground. It should also be noted that one Elmer Moses Mardenborough is the one that filled in this section of Pond Island when Government promised to grant him the long lease for the property. Mardenborough applied for the long lease for the property he filled in on April 21, 1995 and to date it has not been granted to him.
Click here to view the decision to grant the Buncampers another parcel of long lease land.
