SIPITANG: Approval or
rejections of land applications are based on how connected ones are with the
officers in charged or is it?
Sabah Progressive
Party–(SAPP) feels new approach and new culture must to be instilled to
administrators and managers of State Government Departments like State Land and
Survey Department and other State Agencies alike, Hj Amde Sidik, Deputy
President of SAPP said last night at Kg Banting meet about 13km from Sipitang
town.
“I think if the procedures
are adhered to strictly would surely less complaints and suspicions from
public. We can see a few individuals get too much land while a great many do
not even owned an inch,” he said.
One common reasoning if not
standard answer that received by the land applicants, where they failed is,
that the land they applied for has been overlapped with another applicants. In
a case, which is genuine, that should be a problem but sometimes this is where
bribery at works.
Even at the district level
little napoleons behave worse than their bosses at the headquarters Hj Amdee
Sidik said, who is also Chairman for SAPP Constituency Liaison Committee for
Sindumin, N28.
“In Sipitang District alone
we already experienced land scandal, for example, via forgeries of signatures,
land were sold via dubious power of attorneys, native lands were sold to
non-natives, and not forgetting there are people ever ready to exploit the
situation”, he said
A few years ago the building
of Sipitang District Office was burnt down mysteriously, this was still a highly
suspected incident, some say burning down the building was a way of destroying
the existing records.
Present at the gathering
were Sarudin Maidin SAPP CLC Sindumin Treasurer, and some CLC committee members
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