NATAI-TOMBONGON ROAD BEHIND SCHEDULE?

SIGNBOARD…... Project signboard show the completion date.

By : DAP MEDIA

During a visit to the most remote kampongs in the Inanam constituency by the Sabah DAP Kota Kinabalu Member of Parliament cum State Advisor Hiew King Cheu and Vice chairman Edward Ewol Mujie, they discovered that there is a new road under construction in the middle of no way.

This road is a new road under construction at the moment joining Kg Tombongon to Kg Natai, and it is of 4.5 kilometers long with a concrete bridge built across the stream. The road is a sealed road with standard facilities. Some parts of the new road is already sealed, with certain sections of the road are still under construction.

The Kokol-Tombongon Road a branch off road from the main Kokol Road is very bad and filled with big patches of damaged road surfaces and deep potholes. This road joins to the Natai-Tombongon new road and from this new road at Kg Natai where it joins to an old road which is an old kampong road leading to Telipok town.

The new 4.5 KM Natai-Tombongon Road is be constructed with a cost of RM8.2 million with a construction period of one year starting from April 2010 and to be completed by April 2011.

It is now 65% completed, and the RM1.6 million concrete bridge has just started construction work on the two piers without using the foundation concrete span-piles which were brought on to site. The foundation of the pier is just simply constructed sitting on the river bank.

Hiew and Edward felt very surprise to see that deep in the remote kampongs there is a high priced road being built. They asked what is the urgency and necessity to build an expensive road in the middle where both ends are having very bad linking roads.

ROAD…..Entrance to the new road.

BRIDGE…. No development on new bridge site.

SPAN…. Unused concrete span piles.

DELAY….Bridge pier construction on the river bank.

ENTRANCE….. Road sign on entrance at Jalan Kokol.

There is no logical explanation towards this, but one can only said this is definitely a project of the BN. No one will know about the existence this road project, if they don’t go and find out and see for themselves.

The contractor is from Labuan, how come the local contractors were not given the job, was there ever a tender for the job being called? This looks like it is another closed door negotiated contract by the BN.

There is only a few cars will eventually use this road, and there is only a couple of kampong houses here with some 50 odd people staying in the area. The spending of RM8.2 million of the tax payers’ money to construct a big road here, is it justified, or this is just a project created to make some quick money?

Edward said this will be a good case for the MACC to probe into whether there is any corrupt practices and abuse of power involvement. He will make a report to the MACC when he gathers enough information on this project. This is about the correct way on the utilization of all public funds, and the funds must be spent with highest care and with maximum effective result.