Penang washes its hands off Kg Buah Pala issue

BUTTERWORTH: The Penang government said its mediator role between Kampung Buah Pala residents and the landowner and developer is “as good as over.”
Chief Minister Lim Guan Eng said as far as the state government was concerned, the matter ended when some of the villagers sought help from the Barisan Nasional.
“We have done our part and as far as we are concerned, the matter ends there.
“Since they have gone to see the Barisan, the matter ends there,” he told reporters at a Ramadan aid presentation to mosques at Politeknik Seberang Prai here on Thursday.
On Wednesday, Kampung Buah Pala residents association committee chairman M. Sugumaran handed over a 17-page memorandum to Deputy Prime Minister Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin at the Permatang Pauh Barisan Nasional operations centre.
Sugumaran told Muhyiddin that only the Barisan could help resolve the villagers’ problem, claiming that the Penang government had “merely made empty promises.”
Sugumaran said he hoped Muhyiddin would shed some light on the matter since land issues were generally under the Federal Government’s purview.
Lim said the move to meet the Muhyiddin merely validated the state’s concern that the residents could have been used by certain quarters, or that they might have a “political agenda.”
Lim said he did not understand why the Kampung Buah Pala villagers were doing this.
He claimed that the Barisan had not done anything for the residents, while the Pakatan Rakyat-led state government helped them obtain an offer of double-storey terrace houses with a 99-year lease title.
The residents have till Aug 31 to vacate the 200-year old village in Bukit Gelugor before the developer Nusmetro Ventures (P) Sdn Bhd starts pulling their houses down from Sept 1 onwards.
So far, 12 out of the 24 residents have accepted the developer’s offer of the double-storey terrace houses.
The Kampung Buah Pala land had been sold when the state government was held by the Barisan.

tunku : this is what you get when you vote for useless people.it's so easy for lim guan eng to wash his dirty hands just because the people seek BN's assistance.does it means that if it is in bn's state, the people seek assistance from the pakatan and bn too washes their hand and let pakatan handle the problem? this is what the CAT lim guan eng was championing about.what a moron cm.