Residents from a village here brought a live 10-foot python to the Mentri Besar’s office to highlight their fear of having to bear with unwelcome visits from slithery \u201cguests\u201d for the past one year.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe have been having sleepless nights as we never know when a snake would come by our beds,\u201d said labourer C. Subramani, who acted as spokesman for the group of residents from Kampung DBI in Buntong.<\/p>\n
He said he caught the snake on Wednesday night outside his house and decided to bring it to the state secretariat building here yesterday as \u201cproof\u201d of their traumatic experiences.<\/p>\n
The villagers, he said, had to bear with incidents of snakes getting into their house compounds at least three times a week.<\/p>\n
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<\/div>\nSubramani, 51, led the group of residents to present a memorandum to the Mentri Besar yesterday.<\/p>\n
However, their plan was unsuccessful as the main gate of the Mentri Besar’s office was cordoned off by police personnel as word got out earlier about the villagers’ move.<\/p>\n
The snake, which was kept inside a cage, was later sent to the Fire and Rescue Department. The cage was placed inside a car opposite the building.<\/p>\n
Subramani, however, managed to present the memorandum to the Mentri Besar’s special assistant Zulkefli Abdullah outside the gate of the building.<\/p>\n
Speaking to reporters later, he claimed their previous complaints about the snakes had gone unheeded.<\/p>\n
He said Kampung DBI, a pre-independence village, consisted mostly of wooden houses occupied by low-salaried workers and retirees and was overrun with\u00a0lalang<\/em>.<\/p>\n He claimed that the reptiles started to appear in their bathrooms and bedrooms following development work in nearby areas.<\/p>\n One villager died in November last year after being bitten by a snake, he said.<\/p>\n Zulkefli said he would hand over the memorandum to\u00a0Datuk Seri Dr Zambry Abdul Kadir, who was aware of the villagers’ plight.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n <\/p>\n