DEEP AND WET IN BEAUFORT?

BARISAN Nasional has again caused the people in ‘deep and wet’ trouble in Beaufort district. This is due to the heavy flood again happened to the Beaufort area and this has become more serious year by year.

Sabah DAP Beaufort Chairman, Jamil Zakaria today brought Edward Ewol Mujie the DAP Vice Chairman, Fred Fung Kong Win the State Treasurer and Beaufort party member, Jinlin to inspect the serious of the flood situation in the many Kampongs in the Beaufort district next to the overflowing Padas river.

The group travelled by road and met with many stretches of road impassable and submerged under few feet of flood water. The houses, the school, balai raya, farms and plantation are in deep and wet condition.

The people met with the DAPs expressed their anger and blamed the government for not doing anything to protect them from the annual flood and they said who is going to compensate their losses.

They also said why during the Kota Belud flood last year the government compensate RM500 each family and now the Beaufort district gets nothing. It looks as if they are not important. One, Ahmad said he will not vote and support BN anymore.

Jamil the DAP Beaufort chairman said he felt very sorry for the flood victims and their losses cannot be accounted for. A Mr. Chin had complained that his house is under 7 feet of water and his belongings and the planted crops are all washed away and his total losses still cannot be estimated. Will the government pay for all these?

Some minister did say that the flood in Beaufort is ‘biasa’ (too common), no need to worry about, the people has got used to this flood. Jamil said this type of comments is hurting and is ridiculous and not acceptable.

Sabah DAP view this flood situation cannot be solved by the BN government is reflecting that they do not care for the well being of the people and they just don’t care, as long as they are in the dry. The people in deep and wet trouble are not their problem, and the government sees not need and hurry to solve the problem, and instead blame it on the sky, said Edward Mujie.

Fred Fung who felt so sorry to see the business owners of the shops in Beaufort town throwing away socked goods and doing washing of mud in the shops, said if the government had cleared, widen, deepened, and straightened the Padas River, the flood wouldn’t have occurred.

It is a fact that government had not done anything positive to solve the problem. He remembers when his younger days living in Beaufort the flood already existed, and they have to use small boat as means of transportation. Looking at the flood in town today, the BN government after 47 years of Malaysia has totally failed the people in Beaufort and in Sabah as a whole.

What is the use of announcement made and we still see no action, this is definitely another empty promises made by BN. The flood prevention gates in Beaufort did not help Beaufort at all, and why spent so many million ringgits to build something that is no good.