SABAH STILL HAVE 2ND WORLD WAR ROAD

BAD….Road conditions on April 5, 2011 after received numerous public complaints from the local residents at the various villages along Kampung Kuangoh and the neighbouring villages there.

By: DAP INTERIOR MEDIA

DESPITE of the fact that the BN Government has promised to improve the rural road infrastructures in the interior with a hugh amount of allocation in the Ninth Malaysia Plan (9MP) but the situations in the interior of Sabah have turned to worse.

Sabah DAP interior Mobile service had received numerous public complaints from the local residents living at the various villages situated along Jalan Kampung Kuangoh near Bingkor in Keningau District concerning the deplorable bad road conditions there.

Dr Benjamin Yapp, Sabah DAP Parliamentary Liaison Chief for Keningau and Tenom returned to inspect the bad road conditions that he had brought the people's complaints to the local authority concerned but after several months nothing had been done to repair and upgrade the rural road there.

After having made an inspection on April 5, 2011, he found that Jalan Kampung Kuangoh was worse than the time when he inspected the same location since August 2010.

Despite of the promises made by the Government to repair and upgrade the rural road there until to date, nothing had been done and the situations became worse now with many areas along this Jalan Kampung Kuangoh were filled with potholes, water blogged areas and muddy, making it difficult for many villagers and poor school children walking to the rural school and the neighbouring villages. Working people had been putting up in such a bad condition with their cars being subject to frequent mechanical problems and dirty and muddy conditions.

Sabah DAP urged the Rural Development Minister and the PWD to look into the bad rural road infrastructure conditions facing the rural communities and hoped that Jalan Kuangoh which is just about twenty minutes drive from Keningau township would be given a priority soon as the problems had faced the local communities for several decades.