Luqman's musings

  Is it for better protection for house buyers or for some other reason? Here is an email I wrote on 16.8.2023 to the Minister in charge of Housing and copied to the Mayor, DBKK officers, LPPB, Sabah Surveyors Board, Land & Survey Department, Datuk Jamili Nais, and Datuk Roland Chia (PA to the Chief Minister - Datuk Hajiji). Dear Datuk Seri Joachim Gunsalam, In a Daily Express article dated 11.8.2023, I read the following: “In general, this enactment is a law for the licensing control of housing development matters in Sabah and serves to protect the interest of home buyers….”. This enactment is to protect the interest of home buyers of ‘sick housing’ projects so that they will not turn into abandoned housing. “The essence of the amendment to this Bill is firstly, to protect homebuyers, especially from problematic housing development. Secondly, the purpose is also to prevent any housing developers from taking the easy way out and neglecting their responsibilities wh...

  The above is the headline in yesterday’s, 6.8.2023, Daily Express . Prime Minister Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim is determined to put a stop to corrupt practices and irregularities which he said seemed to have become systemic and damaged the previous administration. He claimed that the previous governments were beset by the practice of officials asking for a ‘commission’. I have avoided talking about ‘commission’ as I have no evidence of the same. But, I have questioned how DBKK approved the Vistana Heights project that flouted many of the laws - rules and regulations - in the Housing and Town Development Authority Enactment.