If the PM does not meet former Bukit Jalil
estate residents on May 30, they will camp in front of his office till a
solution is reached.
PETALING
JAYA: The Bukit Jalil estate residents want Prime Minister Najib Tun
Razak to meet them on May 30 and offer a solution to their dispute with
the Kuala Lumpur City Hall (DBKL).
“If Najib refuses to meet us on that day, we will camp at the Prime
Minister’s Office (PMO) until he comes to see us,” said the estate
action committee treasurer K Balakrishnan.
The group earlier delivered a memorandum on their demand to Najib’s special officer Azhar Shahrul.
The 41 families living in the former estate area are currently
embroiled in a tussle with the DBKL as the latter wants to evict them
from the land to set up a Muslim cemetery there.
The former estate workers demanded the City Hall grant them four acres of land out of the 26-acre land to build low cost houses.
The residents duly took the matter to the High Court and the Court of Appeal but lost their case.
Najib had advised the Federal Territories and Urban Well-Being
Ministry to find an amicable solution to the stand-off but to date
nothing concrete had emerged.
Balakrishnan said that the residents had no choice but to resort to
such drastic measures as their letters and memos to the prime minister
since last year went unreplied.
“If the government can intervene in the Kampung Buah Pala issue, why not solve this issue as well?” he asked.
In 2008, Kampung Buah Pala in Penang was demolished to make way for a posh condominium project, the Oasis.
While 24 families residing in the village received double storey
houses from the state government as compensation, nine families refused
to accept the offer out of dissatisfaction.
Subsequently, Najib moved in and got the nine families and their
extended relatives, houses in Taman Sejahtera Indah, Teluk Air Tawar.
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