WHAT HAPPEN TO KG BATU LINTING KUALA PENYU?

CHEERS…. Hiew with Datuk John Ghani and his friends during the Christmas Open house.

THE PEOPLE urged the Kota Kinabalu Member of Parliament, Hiew King Cheu to highlight their grievances concerning their hardship faced in the kampongs here in Kuala Penyu. The kampongs here are constantly having electricity power cut and frequent breakdown. This is happening more serious nowadays. The water supply here is even worst, because there is already three years that the pipes ran dry.

This was disclosed to the KK MP Hiew when he visited the kampongs and to attend the Christmas open house function held by Datuk John Ghani who lives in the Kg Batu Linting. The function was attended by nearly a thousand people including the Ex-Perak Menteri Besar and the MP for Bukit Gantang Datuk Nizar Jamaruddin, and the Assistant Federal Minister Datuk Lajim Ukim, he is also the MP for Beaufort.

The water supply problem in the Kuala Penyu kampongs near the beaches having shortage and absolutely no water is almost three years now. The people have to depaend on the rain water or even have to dig their own wells and using deep well-point to suck the underground water up.

Datuk John Ghani’s house is one of the typical examples. He uses well-point system to suck up the underground water for his house here, and sometimes when there is power cut, he will have to depend on electric power generators to start the electric well-point pumps.

There are many houses along the beach here and including a primary school with many students. All of them had been affected, but why the government did not come to solve the problem which was there for a long time?

The government could have forgotten about these Kuala Penyu small kampongs. The people said they are not important now, but when election comes the BN will come fast to ask for support. Very surprisingly, even Datuk Lajim has concurred on the water and electric supply problem in his speech, and he had also made complaint himself.

MP Hiew said no matter how small these kampongs are, and the people here should deserve the same treatment and welfare as any other Malaysian. It is unfair to neglect them and put them aside, and he said it is not difficult to bring in the water and steady electricity supply to these kampongs provided the people in charge especially those in the BN government is going to do their part as they are paid to execute their duties as the people representatives.