The site cleared for the launch of Rangau Valley Development Project is now overgrown with bushes.
LIMBANG: The people who are supposed to benefit from a public housing project under the Rangau Valley Development Project are losing their patience as the project has not taken off after it was officially launched by Chief Minister Datuk Amar Abang Johari Tun Openg in January this year.
The site, which was cleared for the launching ceremony, is now overgrown with bushes, leaving people from the target group who had been waiting to have their own houses for the past seven years in a quandary.
Rangau Neighbourhood Committee chairman Adinin Adol called on the developer to start work without further delay, saying residents had been waiting for too long to enjoy more comfortable housing.
“The people are asking when is the project going to start as there are no heavy machines on the ground and the site has been overgrown with bushes,” he said.
Another local Alias Zailani, 38, hoped the government will start the project soon, saying he was puzzled to see that clearing works at the site had suddenly grinded to a halt.
Fellow resident Kuan Jiew Chin, 48, said he had been waiting for the good news for the past five years and had been paying monthly instalment for a loan taken for a house there.
“I have to put up with other costs such as renting a house as I still don’t have a place of my own to live in,” he lamented.
Abang Johari launched the project worth RM250 million on Jan 30 this year during his first visit to this town as chief minister.
The RPR Rangau housing project which was abandoned over a decade ago will to be rehabilitated by the Ministry of Housing as a component of the Rangau Valley Development Project.