2219: Contrary to reports that a deal has been struck with all the villagers, half the remaining households have not yet accepted the developer’s vaguely worded compensation offer.
This is the current position:
- Those who had left much earlier and signed – 9 households
- Those who have now accepted and signed – 12 households
- Those who have not signed – 12 households
The above information was provided to me by Sugumaran, the village committee chairman, when I contacted him a moment ago.
“The 12 (who have not signed) are with us now.”
I asked him what they were looking for.
“We want a concrete proposal and not the vaguely worded offer that was given to us earlier. We want an assurance that if, for whatever reason, Nusmetro is unable to continue the project, whoever takes over the project will continue to honour the offer. The state or any other party must be willing to provide such a guarantee.”
Sugumaran added that the villagers, whose backs are against the wall after yesterday’s display of force and arrests, will be holding a meeting among themselves tomorrow night. Few outsiders – especially those who have never stepped foot in the village – understand what it is like for them to lose their village.
The villagers, still emotionally recovering from the traumatic experience yesterday, want the loopholes in the compensation offer to be removed and a proposal that spells things out clearly.
Leaving politics aside, to me, it’s not unreasonable to ask for something concrete; there have been too many previous cases of villagers and pioneers who were offered and promised all sorts of things to entice them to leave – only to find themselves stranded later because they had nothing legally enforceable.
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Steven & Sugu want something concrete. Let me tell him about me. I paid 10,000 deposit for a 74,000 flat. The loan was approved. All loan and housing agreement were signed. The project was abandoned. Now I don`t have the house and I still have to service the loan.
Kg Buah Pala agreement was sealed through the intervention of the Penang government and Chief Minister department. What more do they want. REMEMBER they are squatters and they have no say at all whatsoever. UMNO and MIC are causing trouble and Sugu and Steven (appear to be) part of it. The only way out is to boot out Sugu and Steven and the 11 who did not sign. NO MORE NEGOTIATION BY THE STATE GOVERNMENT. We the people of Penang are getting fed up of the Kg Buah Pala resident.
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What is not yours is not yours… Compensation??? What compensation???? A bunch of greedy I******!!!! You want to vote for BN go ahead> Nobody bothers anymore.
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Well said Tommy (Sept 7th 10.50am) I will relate you my story. When our houses were torn down at K.Lumpur Jln. Cheras 3 1/2 miles (ooposite KFC Tmn. Pertama, Cheras), during the early 80′s to make way for a ‘white elephant’ bicycle velodrome development, we don’t get much help like what the KBP residents had. There is no Lim Guan Eng, no state govt asistance and obviously the BN don’t give a …. We were asked to moved to adjacent wooden long-houses which was being ‘kelam-kabut’ built one two months earlier near a dumpsite behind the current KL Badminton Stadium called Kg. Ikan Emas. We were being ‘INSTRUCTED BY THE GOMEN’ to moved out or else….! We will be given a house later, so they claimed. There was no negotiation. Compensation?? What … compensation?? You will be considered lucky not being locked up by the mata-mata & gomen people, for asking lots of questions. Many (predominantly Chinese familes) were left in despair that fateful day. Some like my paternal family had stayed there for over 100 years. We left the only place we know as our home, a place where me and the rest of my siblings, cousins & relatives called hometown. The long-houses were too small (500sq.ft 2 rooms unit) to accomodate a slightly larger families like us. So we have to leave the comfort of our ‘kampung’ to rent someplace else. But we find solution to alleviate our problems, to continue with our lives. We don’t treat it like the nation owes us a living and wait for durian runtuh. We reckoned it was inhumane but we accepted the fact that we DON’T OWN THE LAND.
Fast forward to 2009. We still haven’t get our houses but anyway many of us bought ours many years back through our hard-earned money. The KL Datuk Bandar already changed a dozen times. Now, nobody knows what’s going on, what to do with the rumah panjang folks and worse, where’s the files in DBKL. The Velodrome is still as white as the jumbo we can imagine (when the last time anyone heard of any applaudable event going on there?). We moved on. But KBP residents willingly being used as pawn to humiliate the Penang Sate govt. Kg Buah Pala’s residents brought the issue as if they are the only people need attention in the whole country. The rakyat of Malaysia are now struggling to fight on to rejuvenate the country and free itself from the BN regime who had terrorized, plundering the wealth and damaging the social intergrity of our country for so many years. Where have you been all these years?
We recognize that you need help, but can’t you guys find a reasonable solution instead in which everyone agrees with and propose it to the CM. Instead of crying here and there, blaming this and that hindering the people’s effort to reform the country. If you are truly sincere Malaysian who wants to change the nation for the better, why can’t you put in an effort? Rather than expecting the state or federal govt to do something for you, try work up something to alleviate your problems first. Don’t just sit there and wait for durian runtuh. For God’s sake, trust LGE. He is on your side. You should know that the state govt has limited resources and authority as long as the federal govt is controlled by ‘the other side’. We the rakyat still cares about you but after what has prevailed for the last couple of months, we have slowly grown disgusted. And you trust those UMNO, BN, MCA instigators? By putting up as a pawn for them to threaten and belittle the state govt you the Kg. Buah Pala residents will still end up losers. Wake Up!
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Again NO MORE NEGOTIATION BY THE STATE GOVERNMENT. Whether the developer want to pay them nothing, peanuts, an attap house, a double storey or a bungalow is no more our concern any more. Lest they be evicted and their house demolish is also no more the concern of the government and Pakatan as they have been offered a good deal before. Whether they want to vote Pakatan or not in the next election is up to them. THE GOVERNMENT, DAP & PAKATAN MUST NOT BE THREATENED BY THESE FEW PEOPLE LIKE sugu & steven WHO HAVE BEEN USED BY MIC & UMNO TO FURTHER THEIR OWN END. they are not indispensable. The people of Penang will understand and support LGE, DAP & Pakatan.
For your rememberance ::
Those 18 arrested, 5 were Buah Pala resident of which 2 are sugu and steven and 13 are from MIC. This shows that that MIC is creating trouble. They turn to UMNO, haha Numetero and the Gelugor UMNO chief are good friend. Maybe he can negotiate a Bungalow for them.
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I see people pointing fingers here and there, what’s the fuss? Easy lah….since BN/UMNO keep chanting 1Malaysia, People First, cut some land from Pulau Burung and give it to KBP residents lah…fertile land somemore, can plant banana, can plant coconut, can plant durian….they will be grateful and when the plants bear fruit, they give back some to MIC, UMNO, Koh Tsu Koon to show their gratitude.
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Anil .. can you stop posting the buah pala .. bored adi .. this will never ending story .. in legal means they are squatters .. please be fair .. ..
we pay for our land , cost of building tax , loan intrest and whatever u named it for us to own a home ..
these villagers .. stay there claimed is their land and until now there is no black and white proof .. means they are squatter .. accept it .. there are many more cases in malaysia .. what is so special about these villagers ..
when LGE want to talk to them .. they rather listen to hindraf and mic .. apaname solved with a stroke of a pen …
people losing jobs and economy is going to longkang and these people get a double storey house still dont want to accept ..
please remind.. the state gov still hold the major key in this project .. if the developer didnt give them the double storey .. the state gov can stop issuing CF for them , without CF , nobody can move in ..
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Dear Anil,
I have always admired your fair reporting on all issues and an ardent fan of yours without doubt, but, this time, I think you are sorely misled by the Sugumaran, guy!
Firstly, before getting ourselves embroiled in a matter that is today no longer an issue to most Penangnites of all races, except, Sukumaran. Just what do they really want? They are twisting and turning at every opportunity to screw or to fish for more sympathy, from the everyone who bothers to listen to them. To those who had accepted the deal brokered by the State Government in good faith, they will have their houses, but to those who are so fickle and whose eyes pop up, when someone promises bigger compensations and whose ears twitches whenever someone promises of better financial rewards, good luck!
Just what have MIC, UMNO, Hindraf or Gerakan done for them? Now the blame game is on LGE, the opposition in the state, had started blaming him for brokering such a good deal for the KBP folks. They said he had set a precedent and there are so many squatter villages in the country, and now every squatter is dreaming of owning a double storey 500k house.
And oh! How vile this Sugumaran can be? Criticising LGE at will, and … himself from UMNO, MIC and Hindraf, has anyone of the parties that he had contacted given him a concrete answer like what LGE had done? They are not even willing to commit a low cost flat to the families let alone a 500k double storey house. Come on, if the words of the Chief Minister cannot be taken at par value, then continue begging from his political masters!
At the end of the day, it is the poor gullible KBP folks who will suffer! Sugumaran… had messed up the whole deal and now publicly begging for 300K from the developer. To Nusmetro, though, we hate you for what you had done and conspired with the previous Government to secretly purchased the land in the most unethical manner, in this instant, build up the houses to those who had agreed to the deal and fight it out in court with those who had not agreed. Business is business, and in business there is no friends! Continue the demolition, this will bring those being misled by Sugumaran to their knees and realize how much they have lost out. In the worst case scenario, build 23 houses for the 24 families, even to those who till now had not agreed minus the one for Sugumaran. Fight him in the court of law for all the (alleged) misrepresentation of facts! Sue him for delaying and obstruction of your Company’s project! Make sure, and let this be a lesson for all, that greed does not pay!
Now that the State Government had washed their hands clean, just demolish and build whatever projects that had been planned for! Live must go on and let us not get stuck with one KBP issue only. There are hundreds of villages in Malaysia with century old history! Your good will to work with the PR Government for the benefits of the folks had not been appreciated by some, so just move on. Make sure the double storey houses you built for those who had accepted are not what those people with miserable ideas make out to be. Make sure there is no room for them to come back and beg for a double storey house anymore! This is strictly business and the compensation is done out of goodwill. Build the double storey houses first and let those who doubt you, wallow in misery!
We Malaysians, have so many other issues to deal at hand and we are sick of the KBP issue to trouble us. Just move on. Do not let 12 families disrupt the growth and time of the Malaysians public at large and your company in particular. This merry go round will never end as far as that Sugumaran is negotiating on behalf of the villagers, and to those who are sticking with Sugumaran, stick on with him and get your 3.5 million mansion from him. His sight is sickening!
Anil, please do not highlight the KBP issue anymore as it is really dampening our spirits! The issue of the cow head stompers are more serious to highlight than the nitty gritties that is happening in KBP because of twelve families. The cow head stompings involves the whole Indian community and all Malaysians! Stop reporting or highlighting this petty issue, it is all over and done with. Please, Anil, you can blog on larger issues, but please let this issue rest once and for all.
Thank you.
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wong ka wai,jangan shiok sendiri! .bila saya baca komen anda,saya rasa bahawa anda pandai “spin” macam gasing .saya mengundi dap pada masa GE-12 lepas,tapi tak perlu saya menulis atau mempertahankan diri saya.dan saya tahu antares ialah anak bangsa malaysia sejati.
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