Aug 052009
Here’s an article that should be essential reading in understanding the background to the Kg Buah Pala issue.
In particular, how did Penang state government sell the land to the Koperasi when the trusteeship is believed to have passed to the Federal Government?
Can you sell something that you don’t own?
How could the Penang state government under the BN sell the Kampong Buah Pala land when “the available evidence seemed to show that the land is still vested in the Federal Lands Commissioner”, wonders a bewildered P Ramakrishnan.
Negative elements – greed, corruption, abuse of power and judicial indifference – have conspired to wipe out part of Penang’s history and destroy its heritage. Read on…
All you LGE psycophants and spinners,
You are spinning LGE as a saint, as a perfect person who is incapable of mistakes. This is not about LGE in person. LGE is the face of the PR govt. As a CEO he is responsible for anything that happens under him.
The state govt has blundered big time which you people are conveniently and stubbornly glossing over.
Most people agree that there is some element of fraud in the transaction, even LGE admitted as much. Then why is LGE reluctant to investigate. If he sets up a select committee to probe, it would send shivers down the spine of those involved including KTK. It would expose them. The truth will be uncovered
Fraud invalidates any contract. If fraud can be proven there will be hardly any need to compensate the landowner/developer.
Why is LGE not investigating the alleged fraud even though he had more than a year to do so?????
Instead he is pressuring the villagers.
Ken,
Why is the state govt looking for a solution at the last minute when it had all the time since March 2008.
The Adorna Properties case applies to a purchase in good faith. Good faith means without knowledge of fraud whether expressly or constructively. Good faith has to be proven. In this case the Koperasi members are state civil servants. How many of them are Land Office officials directly involved in the transfer? Who chaired the Land Committee? All these info will be in the possession of the state govt.
Ken,
The Ct decision was made without any evidence of the alleged fraud. Furthermore it was a summary judgment -without benefit of a trial.
Again I ask this question, why is the state govt not investigating the alleged fraud????
The BN govt initiated the sale of the land and the PR govt finalized the sale. BN and PR may be poles apart but they have one thing in common, that is, the source of their political donations.
The housing developer industry contributes political funds to both sides of the political divide.
Maybe that is why the state govt does not want to investigate the fraud as it may antagonise its powerful benefactors.
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Even if the trusteeship when to the Federal Land commissioner, does that mean the Penang Govt cannot make changes to land ownership. The Federal Land Commissioner power is actually very limited under our laws..Essentially, it does not have the authority to do anything without state approval.. Also, Federal Land Commissioner also cannot block anything that State Govt decides to do with state land.
So even if technically the trusteeship is with Federal Commissioner, due to the confines of its power, when it comes to state land, its the Exco that still decides what to do with it and can decide…
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