Kg Segambut Permai folk to know housing fate on New Year’s Eve

Kampung Segambut Permai residents are set to find out on new year’s eve if their request for a permanent housing solution will be fulfilled by Kuala Lumpur City Hall (DBKL).

Residents' representative Mohd Nazeem Sultan Mohamed (above) announced this after meeting with DBKL officers and an aide of Federal Territories Minister Khalid Samad this afternoon.

“After accepting our memorandum, they now understand our problems. They say they will discuss this and check if there are any People’s Housing Project (PPR) units which can accommodate all of us.

“They say only either the mayor (Nor Hisham Ahmad Dahlan) or minister (Khalid Abdul Samad) can make a decision on this.

“They said they plan to give us an answer by this Tuesday (Dec 31). All of us will return here then in the hope of getting a final decision on this,” he told a press conference while flanked by about 40 residents outside DBKL’s headquarters along Jalan Raja Laut.

The residents, whose homes are set to be demolished on Jan 7, want DBKL to offer all 30 families the opportunity to rent and eventually purchase units at a PPR nearby their present settlement.

They have also requested for all residents to be moved en bloc to the same PPR locality and for those who are elderly, infirm or with special needs to be given units at lower floors for their convenience.

Earlier this week on Christmas eve, bulldozers descended upon Kampung Segambut Permai and tore down all unoccupied homes.

The residents, supported by Parti Sosialis Malaysia (PSM), had gotten into a standoff with the court bailiffs and police officers who participated in the demolition exercise.

The settlement lies on private land and the landowner is seeking a complete demolition. Residents, however, claim that their forebearers had set up the village in the late 1960s.

The matter was resolved when the bailiffs agreed to delay the rest of the demolition work by two weeks.

Segambut MP Hannah Yeoh previously said that a court had ordered for the demolition on Sept 26 but this was postponed to early December.

Khalid then intervened and requested for yet another two-week delay so he could arrange “transit homes” for the residents.

Nazeem explained today that the residents had turned down the offer because they disagreed with the six-month limit, preferring a permanent solution instead.  

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