A Facebook page to protest against the plan to build a 100-storey mega-tower in Kuala Lumpur has signed up over 100,000 supporters in less than a week.

        

The '1M Malaysians Reject 100-storey Mega Tower’ page, created last Saturday - the day after Prime Minister Najib Razak announced the RM5 billion project in his 2011 Budget speech - has 101,327 supporters as at 9.50pm today.

It aims to register one million supporters in the coming weeks.

The phenomenal growth of supporters is indicative of the outpouring of criticism from Malaysians who say the money would be better spent elsewhere.

anti mega tower facebook group 191010 01 The building, named 'Warisan Merdeka' or 'Heritage of Independence', would be the tallest in Malaysia, inching past the iconic Petronas Twin Towers, which were the world's tallest buildings at 88 storeys each when completed in 1998.

Two days ago, the creators of the page, who wished to remain anonymous, had accused Facebook of blocking their access to the site.

They said they were barred from posting any message.

However, their access was restored after the page was recategorised by Facebook as a community page instead of a fan page.

According to Facebook , a fan page may only represent a specific individual, brand or organisation.

But the anti-tower page owners insisted that they had originally registered the page as a community page.

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azlan Meanwhile, two pro-tower Facebook pages - the ‘Kami Sokong Menara Warisan’ with 308 supporters, and ‘I See the Benefits of PNB’s 100-storey Tower’ with 50 supporters, has sprung up seemingly in response.

Plans for the mega-project, to be built and financed by government-link company Permodalan Nasional Bhd (PNB), comprises three phases and is to be fully completed by 2020.

The integrated development project located within the enclave of Stadium Merdeka and Stadium Negara, will comprise a 100-storey tower, which will take four years to build beginning from next year.

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