{"id":5454,"date":"2009-08-20T14:42:54","date_gmt":"2009-08-20T06:42:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/?p=5454"},"modified":"2009-08-20T14:42:54","modified_gmt":"2009-08-20T06:42:54","slug":"penang-govt-gives-up-on-kg-buah-pala","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/borninmalaysia\/2009\/08\/20\/penang-govt-gives-up-on-kg-buah-pala\/","title":{"rendered":"Penang Govt gives up on Kg Buah Pala"},"content":{"rendered":"

After yesterday’s event<\/a>, <\/strong>I kind of expected this response from the state government. The state government is washing its hands<\/a> <\/strong>off the problem of Kg Buah Pala since the residents have approached the Federal government.<\/p>\n

Now the residents have chosen their path, and can’t turn back.\u00a0 Most likely they will end up with nothing unless federal government waves a magic wand.<\/p>\n

I think the state government were looking for an excuse,\u00a0 and the residents provided one just in time.\u00a0 We can only hope that the residents have been given the correct advice by those involved.<\/p>\n

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The Penang government said its mediator role between Kampung Buah Pala residents and the landowner and developer is \u201cas good as over.\u201d<\/p>\n

Chief Minister Lim Guan Eng said as far as the state government was concerned, the matter ended when some of the villagers sought help from the Barisan Nasional.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have done our part and as far as we are concerned, the matter ends there.<\/p>\n

\u201cSince they have gone to see the Barisan, the matter ends there,\u201d he told reporters at a Ramadan aid presentation to mosques at Politeknik Seberang Prai here on Thursday.<\/p>\n

On Wednesday, Kampung Buah Pala residents association committee chairman M. Sugumaran handed over a 17-page memorandum to Deputy Prime Minister Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin at the Permatang Pauh Barisan Nasional operations centre.<\/p>\n

Sugumaran told Muhyiddin that only the Barisan could help resolve the villagers\u2019 problem, claiming that the Penang government had \u201cmerely made empty promises.\u201d<\/p>\n

Sugumaran said he hoped Muhyiddin would shed some light on the matter since land issues were generally under the Federal Government\u2019s purview.<\/p>\n

Lim said the move to meet the Muhyiddin merely validated the state\u2019s concern that the residents could have been used by certain quarters, or that they might have a \u201cpolitical agenda.\u201d<\/p>\n

Lim said he did not understand why the Kampung Buah Pala villagers were doing this.<\/p>\n

He claimed that the Barisan had not done anything for the residents, while the Pakatan Rakyat-led state government helped them obtain an offer of double-storey terrace houses with a 99-year lease title.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

After yesterday’s event, I kind of expected this response from the state government. The state government is washing its hands off the problem of Kg Buah Pala since the residents have approached the Federal government. Now the residents have chosen their path, and can’t turn back.\u00a0 Most likely they will end up with nothing unless […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,11],"tags":[143,225,27],"class_list":["post-5454","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-borninmalaysia","category-indian","tag-penang","tag-politicians","tag-protest"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5454","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5454"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5454\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5456,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5454\/revisions\/5456"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5454"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5454"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}