Kg.Buah Pala Villagers hand over a memorandum to state police management division chief ACP Zakri Kamaruddin, who received it on behalf of CPO Ayob Yaacob, at the state police headquarters in George Town at 10.30am.. at Penang Road Police Headquaters(IPK).
Earlier the situation looked tense when some 20 residents arrived at the police headquarters. Estimated crowd will be approximately 50 and the whole program went smooth without any distraction to the public and traffic. We are pleased with the arrangement by the Police personnel today, since we are allowed to hand over the memorandum as soon we explained our intention.
The Memo is not on the Demolition attempts in Kg.Buah Pala, but to request the police to be fair and work with the people and not with the developer.Police have deployed a light strike force squad before the building with some 20 helment-wearing personnel armed with batons and shields.We are not there to create tense or havoc, its just to pass a memorandum to express our disatisfaction to the injustices and harrassment but police personnel during the 13.08.09 demolition attempt and the doubt raised by the illogical arrest of the 3 committee menbers.
It is also stated that Police has no rights to enter the house of any villager here since it is an act of abuse of power. The Developer has to be protected but at the same time the innocent villagers are important and a citizen of this country too. They might have legal standing on the land according to the Federal Court decision but they dont have any rights to enter or demolish the houses in Kg.Buah Pala.
In the memorandum, it is stated that several police personnel were seen following instructions given by the developer company directors Thomas Chan and Gary Ho when the developers attempt was not successful in demolishing the village on Aug 3 and Aug13.
refer : www.malaysiakini.com/news/110437
The dateline for eviction had expired on Aug 31 and the developer had warned that the company?s demolition team would move in any time from today to demolish the houses and flatten the village although the villagers are still seeking a trial in the court and filing an injuction today.
refer : www.malaysiakini.com/news/110473
State police deputy CPO SAC1 Tun Hisan Tun Hamzah told newsmen the police had always been impartial in carrying out its task and would not practice double standards, and told that the accusation that the police is working for the developer as false, but as a writer I am sure there were several officer who was clearly seen working for the developer, Chief Inspector Asree will be one of them.
Chief Minister Lim Guan Eng must act swiftly to end the villagers? predicament and stop playing the blame political game on the previous administration. The CM should stop passing the buck ? he is responsible for our problem today. He accepted the balance land premium from the civil servant cooperative on March 14 and transferred the land title on March 27. He cannot runaway or hide from his actions and blame UMNO and BN instead of solving the problem here. I think he is not capable of being a good administrator of the state. He is running away from the problem and not striving to solve it and he is only blaming the previous Government and trying his level best to go ahead with the Oasis project!
Soon after handing over the memorandum, villagers proceed to Komtar to show their disatisfaction through a short peaceful demonstration involving about 50 villagers combined with few representatives from the neighbouring villages. About 4 other villages reps were there to see for themselves on the current progress and situation, about 30mins demonstrating peacefully the Villagers were chased out by Chief Inspector Asree the same culprit that is believed and suspected to work for the developer during many demolition processes in Kg.Buah Pala.
*Kg.Buah Pala Villagers denied entry into 3rd Floor in Komtar.. updates soon.
Rwindraj@Cryingvoices
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