Selangor to 'review' 33 housing projects in Hulu Kelang
Please don't mistake me for a 'Toyo basher' - Am I to blame if he provides so much cannon fodder?
Take this statement from him today - "A total of 33 development projects in Hulu Klang will be reviewed, following last week’s landslide that killed four people in Kampung Pasir".
OK that's good news right? But he quickly hastens to add - "A ban could not be issued as these projects have long been approved and many property buyers would be affected by it. Buyers will have to bear the cost of their bank loans and it will be unfair." Very considerate of Toyo I must say.
Then why call it a review? A proper review cannot exclude, before it has even started, either banning or temporarily halting work on whatever grounds, humanitarian or otherwise. If let's say one project has been found to be unsafe, will he not stop that project from proceeding? Or is benevolent Toyo going to say '' unfair lah, got bank loans to settle what?'
If the public good had been paramount in the eyes of the state government it would have exercised greater care in approving these projects in the first place. Or the powers that be would have thought less of their own fat pockets and wallets.
Even at this critical hour the first thought somehow is for self-preservation rather than genuine, heartfelt public good. After having 'approved' these projects, under what 'conditions' only Toyo and company know, it becomes exceedingly difficult to extricate from 'agreements' made, in case the aggrieved developer or some middle-man spills the beans.
To be fair to him let us give him his chance to 'review' the projects and then see if anything is done to either modify, temporarily stop or ban outright any of these projects. I'll keep you posted.
Take this statement from him today - "A total of 33 development projects in Hulu Klang will be reviewed, following last week’s landslide that killed four people in Kampung Pasir".
OK that's good news right? But he quickly hastens to add - "A ban could not be issued as these projects have long been approved and many property buyers would be affected by it. Buyers will have to bear the cost of their bank loans and it will be unfair." Very considerate of Toyo I must say.
Then why call it a review? A proper review cannot exclude, before it has even started, either banning or temporarily halting work on whatever grounds, humanitarian or otherwise. If let's say one project has been found to be unsafe, will he not stop that project from proceeding? Or is benevolent Toyo going to say '' unfair lah, got bank loans to settle what?'
If the public good had been paramount in the eyes of the state government it would have exercised greater care in approving these projects in the first place. Or the powers that be would have thought less of their own fat pockets and wallets.
Even at this critical hour the first thought somehow is for self-preservation rather than genuine, heartfelt public good. After having 'approved' these projects, under what 'conditions' only Toyo and company know, it becomes exceedingly difficult to extricate from 'agreements' made, in case the aggrieved developer or some middle-man spills the beans.
To be fair to him let us give him his chance to 'review' the projects and then see if anything is done to either modify, temporarily stop or ban outright any of these projects. I'll keep you posted.
posted by The Malaysian. at 6/07/2006 08:17:00 PM
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