SABAH DAP mobile service team led by its Parliamentary Chief for Keningau and Tenom, Dr Benjamin Yapp received numerous public complaints from the local rural communities that there were lack of public amenities like housing aid program for the poor rural communities who have no decent houses to stay in rural areas such as Bingkor, Apin-Apin in Keningau as well as Melalap and Kemabong in Tenom.
The poor rural folks were not given the opportunity to obtain PPRT facilities, thus they were forced under difficult circumstances to live in made-shift shelters and shared accommodation with relatives and friends without a proper, decent home.
The rural communities complained to Sabah DAP that the Government had neglected the rural people for decades. There were insufficient housing facilities provided by the Government for thousands of poor rural folks who were living in poverty in the rural areas.
Dr. Benjamin suggested that the rural and regional development ministry to build adequate low-cost housing facilities to accommodate the rural poor communities in the interior that were lacking in public amenities and utilities such as rural piped, treated clean water supply as well as rural electricity power supply to the remote kampongs in Melalap and Kemabong sub-districts.
“With an average of RM40,000 valued three-bedroom low-cost housing scheme, the rural poor families could eventually own a proper, decent home” said Dr Benjamin Yapp in his statement made recently.
He declared that Sabah DAP Interior would continue to fight for the basic human rights of every Sabahan in order to own a decent house in the interior. Besides the implementation of the basic amenities, Sabah DAP urged the Government to improve the basic rural infrastructure development for the rural communities.
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