Henry (centre) together with ADC directors in a group photograph at the Sibu Central Police station.nl
SIBU: The Batang Oya-Pakoh Sekuau Area Development Committee (ADC) lodged a police report on Monday in response to an earlier police report lodged against them.
The police report against them was about them preventing Deputy Chief Minister Datuk Amar Douglas Uggah from officiating at the earth-breaking ceremony of Sarawak Land Consolidation and Rehabilitation Authority (Salcra) project scheduled for May 16 in Sekuau Resettlement Scheme.
The ceremony, to be held at Rumah Joseph Serang, would mark the start of a Salcra oil palm project there.
Batang Oya-Pakoh Sekuau ADC chairman Henry Kanyan said they only wanted to know from which Salcra participants and from whom they obtained approval to implement the project in their area.
“The police report lodged by us is to reply to the police report which claimed that we (ADC) are preventing the earth-breaking ceremony to be attended by Uggah.
“We did not prevent Uggah from coming for the ground-breaking ceremony, but we are dissatisfied with Salcra for failing to respond to what we wanted to know.
“We do not want Uggah to be made a ‘tool’ by irresponsible people who do not represent the majority of the landowners here.
“The majority of the landowners also come under ADC Batang Oya,” he told reporters yesterday.
He said their counter police report was lodged together with 15 regional directors of ADC.
Asked what they would do in the event that the ground-breaking ceremony would go ahead, Henry said they would react without infringing any law.
“We won’t cause chaos, that’s for sure,” he said.