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Friday 4 September 2009

The Kg Buah Pala blame game - Malaysiakini

'It is not the state government but the courts who have ruled against the villagers and you expect the state government to go above the law?'

Amid arrests, houses demolished in Buah Pala

Makkal: According to recent reports, it seems that developers everywhere are politically linked. Whatever they promise is seldom realised as they are not interested in helping people besides themselves. Eradicate corruption first! Secondly, give the present government the power to review decisions of the previous government. Problem solved.

Rayfire: Sorry to say, the residents of the place are partly to be blamed for this chaos. It is difficult to leave a place you have been in for so long, but life has to go on. This place was given to the developers by the previous administration, so you should question BN and former chief minister Koh Tsu Koon instead.

Chee Hoe Siew: It is not the state government but the courts who have ruled against the villagers and you expect the state government to go above the law? You are not outwitted by supporters of DAP, you are outwitted by facts.

Kb: This is not a racial issue so don't turn it into one. This is a dispute between residents and the developer. The villagers being 100 percent Indians has no relevance. Those of you who try to turn this into a racial issue should be ashamed of yourself. You deserve to live under BN's racial politics for next 50 years and see where you end up.

Chee Hoe Siew: When M Sugumaram abandoned Lim and went to MIC, Hindraf and our deputy prime minister, shouldn't he be expecting them to help? As far as I understand from the input of others, the state government was still able to negotiate a double-storey terrace house worth RM400,000. On top of that, the state government provided RM8,000 per family.

Vii: Lim Guan Eng and Prof P Ramasamy should resign immediately. They are not capable to protect innocent people and carry out their duty as elected reps of the people. This is the first failure of PKR in Penang.

Wira: If I am not mistaken, press reports said that the compensation offer was for 24 core families who qualified. The rest are probably secondary squatters who do not qualify for any compensation. If 24 have accepted the offer, it simply means all house owners who qualify for compensation had accepted.

Greenbug: Where is Koh Tsu Koon? He owes the people of Penang an explanation. Why is he so 'chicken' to accept the offer for a debate with CM Lim Guan Eng?

Psk: Sugumaran should be held responsible for the welfare of the folks of Kampung Buah Pala if they are left with nothing. Instead of negotiating for the best deal, he has disappointed and misled the kampung folks.

If memory served me right, the chief minister has said that they would not object to the developer building the 24 houses. I hope there is still time to resolve this amicably.

Lahore san: Brilliant, first they support BN all these years, and after BN sold them out, they are now DAP's men. After they found out about the Umno/Gerakan double cross, now they are determined to blame DAP for the mess!

Where are your expert advisers who told you to reject the deal brokered by the state government? You have gone to the courts twice and lost, now are you too stupid to know that Umno can't lose in the courts? Why would you want the state government to clash with the courts knowing they can't win?

1 Malaysia: It's too late to blame Lim. Why in the first place, long before march 8, you did not bang on Koh Tsu Koon's table to show disagreement about the land transfer? Stop blaming the Penang government and accept the fact you made a mistake ages ago.

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