PNG Businessmen luring Fijian young women with promises of money

Fiji's High Commissioner in Papua New Guinea, Romanu Tikotikoca has warned Fijian parents not to allow their children to travel to Papua New Guinea with businessmen there. He told Fiji Sun Online after two Fijian young ladies were lured by PNG Businessmen with promises of money to their parents.

The two young women include a 14 year old student from Nadi in Fiji.  Both Fijian women are now with the Fijian High Commission in Port Moresby.

This was confirmed by the Acting Permanent Secretary for Foreign Affairs, Esala Nayasi. Fijian High Commissioner in PNG, Romanu Tikotikoca, said they would try and contact the women’s sponsors to pay their return fare to Fiji. “If they are not going to pay, we will pay,” Mr Tikocatikoca said.

He criticised parents who accepted money in exchange for allowing their daughters to leave.

He said a very good example was the 14-year-old student from Nadi who left last December with a businessman.

“The businessman had promised the parents the student would return before the start of the 2015 school year and she is still in PNG,” he said.

He said even though the Fijian High Commission in PNG had located the girl, the parents should not have allowed the daughter to leave in the first place.

“They had made an unwise decision,” he said.

He advised parents not to neglect their children and not be easily tempted by offers of money.