Luqman's musings

  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.

  On 15.12.2022, I handed a complaint letter together with the As-built Survey, Original Development Plan and Amended Development Plan as well as my explanation of the discrepancy to Lembaga Jurukur Sabah (Sabah Surveyors Board).   It is now more than 5 months and the answer I got from them is that the investigation has not been completed.   I don’t understand why it take such a long time to do a simple examination. My main complaint is that the As-built- survey plan does not reconcile with the on-site situation.   Why isn’t the investigation not completed even after 5 months? What is there to investigate?   A Survey Department should be able to get a licenced surveyor to survey a few points and determine if the as-built survey plan submitted to obtain the Occupancy Certificate is correct.   Here are the correspondences between me and Lembaga Jurukur Sabah.

When I received the water bills for  my son's house at S9 Vistana Heights I informed the developer that there must be a leak in the water pipe.The developer ignored my emails. Here is an extract of part of my complaint letter to DBKK: ‘Complaints on house no 15 (S9) specifically and construction at Vistana Heights, Ira Manis, in general’ dated 10.10.2022 which was copied to the developer, Zaidun Leeng, Architect LYS, PAM Sabah, and IEM Sabah. Sometime in July 2022, I received the water bill for the whole period from the time the keys were given to me in December 2019. I studied the water bill and found the water usage and charges to be too high and decided to check with the Water Department. The officers there said that it is not their responsibility as the water is managed by the management of Vistana Heights. I hope it is a faulty water meter that continues running even when there is no supply of water into the house. Another reason could be a leak in the pipe which could pos...

  On 7.4.2023 I read a post by an architect on FB based on what I wrote about the architect of Vistana Heights. Here are some of his points and my rebuttal. 4. Driveway too steep? That is the scope of the Civil and Structural Engineers (C&S) to conform accessibility from the road levels into the driveway including the general platform levels. Again, Architect is at fault?

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. 

  KKTP - Stanley Chong - alleged fraudulent development plan approved Read the stages I have gone through before writing to Kementerian Kerajaan Tempatan dan Perumahan (KKTP) - Ministry of Local Housing and Government. I give everyone enough time to respond before escalating the matter to higher authorities. It has taken me 3 years, since I first complained to Ms. Jessie Lee of Topwira Corporation Sdn. Bhd, to get to KKTP.   Here is my email to Mr. Stanley Chong, the deputy permanent secretary of KKTP copied to his PA.