While the government AND Petronas are enjoying free money from East Malaysia oil and gas sales, and while the West Malaysian are enjoying super highways, LRT, Monorail, moderns malls, hotels and other infrastructures, the dwellers of longhouses in Sungai Asap are deprived of good roads.
The dwellers of those longhouses were resettled there to make way for the construction of multi-billion Ringgit Bakun hydro-dam. Once completed, the beneficiaries of the Bakun hydro-dam will be Tenaga Nasional, SESCO and orang malaya.
What has become of the fate of the natives who was chased away from the project site and resettled at Sungai Asap ? Like shit. They have lost their land and yeah, the land compensation money is probably all spend out. In addition, their new settlement is being ignored and the spot light now is more focusing on how much SESCO will charge Tenaga Nasional and Sarawak Aluminium Company on the electricity tariff. Sarawak Aluminium Company is jointly owned by global miner, Rio Tinto Ltd and Taib's Cahya Mata Sarawak Bhd.
The authorities which include the state JKR , YB Billy Abit Joo - the MP of Hulu Rajang and ADUN for that area are all a bunch of hopeless. Even the road leading to the Sungai Asap resettlement are over-used by huge timber trucks and that make you wonder if Taib is making the road for the Sungai Asap resettlement or for the timber companies. Yeah, Taib does have direct and indirect shares on those timber companies.
Thursday, May 15, 2008
Sungai Asap resident calls for ACA probe Posted by MD at 9:03 PM
Apparently the plights of the longhouse dwellers from Sungai Asap resettlement has became a controversy and the dwellers are urging the Anti Corruption Agency to investigate the case.So far, James Masing and Dr Elli Luhat has responded to the issue. Jabu and Billy Abit remains silent.
The issues are the road leading to Sungai Asap has been neglected and is in bad shape. It was damaged by heavy trucks and lorries belonging to timber companies that have timber concession in the surrounding areas. Not only the timber companies profit from making the jungle bare but their heavy vehicles are the king of the road.Road maintenance by JKR is none. Monitoring of road uses by JPJ is also rare.
STIDC somehow stop their officer from conducting enforcement.Request for repair or upgrade and complaints have been raised years ago but fell on deaf ears.Without looking further, the main culprits are the timber companies who have spend kick back to the JPJ, STIDC and Police to keep them away and not doing their job to ensure road users safety. JKR being a typically red-taped department will give excuses that the road is damaged by heavy trucks and it should be the task of JPJ, STIDC and Police to look into the matter.
So while JKR, JPJ, STIDC, Police and the YB pointing fingers at each other, the Sungai Asap road is slowly but surely turning from road to muddy path.
That's Malaysian mentality. Why?
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