UDA Holdings Bhd chairman Nur Jazlan Mohamed is a typically arrogant and conceited GLC chairman who forgets he is also a politician, a people’s representative. He has lost touch with the suffering of the ordinary folk. He is looking at the Tanjung Tokong issue from the narrow viewpoint of business without looking further to the social implications and the sufferings of the poor Tanjung Tokong villagers.

These folks are not anti-development, but what is in it for them? A RM150,000 house – is that the cost or the selling price of the compensation? Where do the villagers go from there? At some point you’ll have to be a politician again – and then you will need the help of these folks that you have angered.

You’re a Johorean from an elite family – what do you know of the sufferings of the people of Tanjung Tokong? Go look at the conditions they are living in. Look at the disparity that is growing everyday there.

It’s becoming another elitist and exclusive area for the rich. And I believe that as such the villagers are an eye-sore to new development, you feel they have no business to be there so you want them displaced, the quicker the better!

But they were there for generations - long before the township came to them. They were the dependable voters but it is convenient to forget them now. Remember, the election will come to town every five years, and where will you be then?

Judging from your fancy office (evident from the UDA website) it would have probably cost tax payers a million ringgit. Tell me Mr Chairman, what is the function of UDA? Does urban development mean building fancy homes for the filthy rich? Is the job of UDA to build tall skyscrapers for the business people?

There are plenty of private companies to develop expensive homes and offices as the profit margin is big. I suppose these are the ‘majority’ you talk about?  Somehow, it seems to me that UDA’s main purpose is to get rid of poor local dwellers so you can profit from the land.

The real majority, the poor, needed support from people like you but instead you mocked them.

You said, “We are the custodians of the government's money and we have to use it for the benefit of the majority.” Very admirable, Chairman Nur, except the government’s money is also the rakyat’s money and the majority is the people – not you, not the rich towkays and certainly not the foreigners who will be buying all that prime property you’re trying to develop.

As the UDA chairman you should have a heart; please check your compassion and mend your soul.