Luqman's musings

  A reader, Mr. Chin Chee Thau, made a comment on my Facebook post as follows: Why you did not take legal action? It's a legal and faster way to resolve this matter? This is a good question that needs an elaborate reply. Any legal case in Sabah will take 2 years to resolve and is very costly. I am trying to avoid legal action until all avenues are exhausted. 

  Dear Mr. Stanley Chong, I refer to my email to you dated 16.2.2023 where I said, among other matters, the following: Another problem I had taken to the Housing Tribunal which has not been resolved is that of water leakage due to broken pipe/pipes existing prior to handing over the keys. The Housing Tribunal has brushed off this complaint saying it is a complaint made after the defect liability period. They do not appear to know about latent defects and the fact that the bills were given to house owners only in July 2022. For your information, the developer sent a plumber on 14.4.2023 to replace the water pipes that had been buried a few inches from the surface of the soil. He was instructed by the developer to trace the leaking pipe. 

  The lawyer for the developer, Topwira Corporation Sdn. Bhd. wrote to Persatuan Arkitek Malaysia Sabah Chapter (PAM) a letter with disinformation. This letter was then forwarded to PAM Malaysia. PAM did not write to me to verify the authenticity of the contents of the letter. When I received a copy of the letter from Lembaga Arkitek Malaysia at the end of March 2023, I wrote two emails to the lawyer asking him to explain the wrong information given but have yet to receive a reply.  Are lawyers allowed to write such disinformation and get away with it? Here are my emails to the lawyer.

luqman michel  <luqmanm2002@yahoo.co.uk> To: Stanley.Chong@sabah.gov.my Cc: mayor@dbkk.sabah.gov.my , aduan.lppb@sabah.gov.my , jtu@sabah.gov.my , ljsabah@gmail.com , eims@dbkk.sabah.gov.my Mon, 27 Mar at 06:53 Dear Mr. Stanley Chong, I hope to receive the minutes of the meeting held on 10.3.2023 soon. Meanwhile, I received an email on 21.3.2023 from PAM which included a letter dated 29.9.2022 from Mr. Ronny Cham, the lawyer acting for the developer of Vistana Heights. 

  I waited for a month before emailing Mr. Stanley Chong again. I wrote a simple reminder as follows :                     luqman michel  <luqmanm2002@yahoo.co.uk> To: STANLEY CHONG HON CHUNG Cc: HJH MUDZNAH HAJI YUSOP @ MUDJNAH Mon, 6 Feb at 07:34   Hello again, Mr. Chong. I hope you had a good CNY celebration. It is now one month since you said that you would organise a meeting. When will the meeting be held, sir? Thank you and kind regards. Luqman Michel Meanwhile, I decided to contact Datuk Yeo Boon Hai, the former mayor. I had met him in his office on some other matters sometime in 2018. He signed the Amended Development Plan on 3.10.2018 as mayor of Kota Kinabalu while Mr. Stanley Chong signed the Amended Development Plan as director of DBKK.