Luqman's musings

                                                        This email is to share with you what I have been doing in the last 1 year or so besides occasionally writing about the Vistana Heights problems. I have published a book on how to teach kids who are unable to read and would be grateful if you would kindly share it with your contacts – mothers or teachers who may find it useful. You may get a copy by ordering it online. LINK Here is some background information: 1.      I was the first person in the world to disagree with the more than 35-year-old theory that phonological awareness deficit is the cause of dyslexia. I wrote more than 100 articles from 2010 to 2015 until that theor...

  Tatal ke bawah untuk membaca dalam Bahasa Melayu 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 w...

  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.

                                                           To read click on the image. Today’s (13.7.2023) Daily Express front page report carried a report by our former Chief Minister Tan Sri Harris Salleh. Commenting on a Daily Express report dated 12.7.23, he said that it was strange that in Kota Kinabalu City one can simply build a structure and then abandon it.     What came to my mind was the 2 abandoned structures at Vistana Heights. Nothing has progressed to the two buildings since occupancy certificates were issued for the rest of the project. These 2 detached houses were originally designed as semi-detached houses and redesigned to be detached houses when the land behind the houses collapsed. The two abandoned houses are an ...

  I complained to Sabah Surveyors Board about the fabrication of the as-built survey drawing on 15.12.2022.   On 28.6.2023, 6 months after my complaint, the Committee members of the Sabah Surveyors Board (Lembaga Jurukur Sabah) came for a site visit and took some survey points to determine the height difference between the road and the house platform. 

 I wrote several emails to the mayor and not one was replied. Perhaps the ‘Perintah Am’ which stated that correspondences to government servants must be replied to within two weeks is outdated and not applicable anymore. Not one of my emails to DBKK, LPPB and the Mayor was ever replied.

This is a continuation of my post on my correspondence with the Board of Engineers. The BEM wrote and said that the Board will meet on 6.6.2023. I wrote and said that I will await their report on the investigation. The following are the emails exchanged subsequent to 6.6.2023.