FORTUNATE LOT: The landowners posing for a group photo with the minister (centre) and his entourage.
TEBEDU: Minister of Infrastructure Development and Communications Dato Sri Michael Manyin has ticked off a certain group of people in his constituency for trying to prevent him from fully executing his election pledges.
He said that prior to the last state election he made a pledge that if elected he would do the best he could to bring more infrastructure development and amenities to his constituents regardless of whether they voted for him or not.
However, he said that certain people were resisting government projects being implemented in their midst unlike in other places
where the people were all clamouring for development projects.
He cited the RM90 million allocation that had been approved to extend treated water supply to the various villages in the constituency as an example, ”but could not be implemented due to resistance from the people themselves”.
Manyin, who is Tebedu assemblyman, said he could not understand why the people concerned were against the project.
He was referring to the folk of Temung and Tepoi who refused to let officers from the Land and Survey Department carry out surveying
work on a site in the village for a proposed water pump booster to serve the whole area.
“Instead of giving their cooperation several individuals chased the officers away. As a result, the treated water supply project is put on hold,” he said.
He revealed this when presenting cheques to 274 landowners from Kpg Gahat Mawang and Daha Mawang whose land has been acquired for the upgrading of a 4.2km road connecting the two villages, here yesterday.