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Dont accept donations from 'ruthless' developers

It is appalling to see Penang Chief Minister Dr Koh Tsu Koon and Penang Deputy Chief Minister Abdul Rashid Abdullah putting up wide smiles in a photo showing the director of a housing developer with a RM100,000 donation to TYT Penang Tsunami Disaster Fund (The Star ). It is a shame receiving from those who has been responsible in dispensing untold miseries to buyers of flawed housings.

These are the very people who built substandard housing schemes all over Seberang Perai and brought tremendous pain and sufferings to thousands of people who bought houses built by them. These house buyers still continue to suffer serious flash floods.

From Juru area to Alma, all their houses are flood prone because they failed to meet the basic standards required by the local authority. Houses with quality problem, built on much lower grounds to very bad drainage.

Penang people are not surprised at all that Majlis Perbandaran Seberang Perai (MPSP), the local authority, readily provided the OCs (occupation certificate) despite fatal shortcomings with some so bad, there can never be a solution. That's the problem we suppose resulting from having apathetic members for Majlis Perbandaran appointed from political parties.

The state government is well aware of all the pigheaded developers who never fail to make the same mistake of building substandard housings which later cost the state government fortunes from its coffers to rectify. What more when you have the MPSP blindly giving away OC for seriously flawed projects resulting in more people suffering every year from buying their substandard houses.

The chief minister himself is aware that millions of hard-earned public money continue to be channeled to rectify mistakes done by these greedy businessmen whose selfish rage to make their own fortunes are just insatiable, and in turn cost colossal public sufferings.

For every thousand of extra profit these developers hoard out of their ill intents, the state government has to spend a million to alleviate. The sad thing about it is that even after spending millions for each problem area, there are still numerous situations that can never be resolved and will continue to be great headaches to the elected representatives, most of whom are known to have sleepless nights every time it rained.

The chief minister should have known better than to receive donations from such ruthless developers for the TYT Foundation especially after already knowing that these are the very same who brought so much of miseries to the people to those who elected him to government.

It is a shame the chief minister is allowing his good office to be used by these wicked businessman exactly the same way they either misused or cheated MPSP. I also hope these culprits are not further rewarded with datukship as usually done for donors to such funds. It is really such a shame.

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