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Monday, September 10, 2012

IS THIS TRANSPARENT? BN-FRIENDLY developers to buy Taman Manggis


IS THIS TRANSPARENT? BN-FRIENDLY developers to buy Taman Manggis
A GROUP of "Barisan Nasionalfriendly" developers will set up a company next week to buy the 0.45ha Taman Manggis land in Jalan Zainal Abidin and develop it into public housing for the poor.
State BN Youth chairman Oh Tong Keong said the company, Taman Manggis Phase II Sdn Bhd, would be registered next week, and an official offer letter would be sent to the state government within 10 days.
He said about RM50 million would be spent by the company to buy the land, priced at RM450 per sq foot, where lowcost flats and shop-lots would be built for disabled and single mothers.
“The company is made up of developers in Penang and Kuala Lumpur. None of us are part of the company. They are BN supporters who see this as a social obligation to build lowcost houses for the poor," Oh said.
“After all, this was land allocated for the poor by BN then. The state government will receive the offer letter through the company."
He said the developers were fulfilling BN's intention that the land be used for public housing, as had earlier been agreed upon at a state executive council meeting in 2003.
“We will send an offer letter through the company’s lawyer, unlike the one that Komtar assemblyman Ng Wei Aik handed over to us last week. That was a political statement, not an offer letter," Oh told a press conference.
“It did not have a reference number, and no carbon copies to the state secretary and chief minister. You call that an official letter?"
On Thursday, Ng, who is also the chief minister’s political secretary, delivered a self-signed letter to state BN chief Teng Chang Yeow offering sale of the land after the group agreed to buy it for RM22 million.
Oh hoped the state was being sincere in offering to sell the land.
“We stuck to our end of the bargain of buying the land and developing it for public housing. We hope Lim Guan Eng would not revoke the offer and tell us that he cannot sell the land now,” he said.
The Taman Manggis land issue has taken several twists since June with BN alleging the plot was undersold.
The land was sold to Kuala Lumpur International Dental Sdn Bhd, through open tender.
The company had planned to build Victoria International Medical Centre but it had not been able to secure a permit from the Health Ministry.
The company bought the land for RM11million or RM230 per sq ft in 2010 after the state government gazetted the land for a medical centre in view of the lack of medical facilities in the vicinity and to boost medical tourism.
-mmail.com

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