Those low-cost houses in Sibu Jaya, Sibu

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Those low-cost houses in Sibu Jaya, Sibu, Sarawak               28Oct2012

          Those low-cost houses in Sibu Jaya, Sibu, Sarawak are one of the live evidences and proofs of the poor quality of the BN government led by Taib Mahmud and his cronies.  Who are the “ wolf-hearted and dog-lunged” (狼心狗肺) ministers who signed the documents to approve and permit such kennel-like houses to exist?   These houses are well-evidenced of corruption, collusion, cold, apathy and greed of the developer(s) and Taib Mahmud and his cronies, blind and deaf,  as well as the high ranking officials in the ministries concerned.  We people are indeed at the mercy of these greedy and hyena-like political thugs.

          With such low and poor quality of houses, people, no doubt, have to resort to renovate and extend their houses to alleviate uncomfortable housing  living conditions.  Some more daring and desperate ones, of course, extend the houses upwards/ vertically as they can’t extend the houses horizontally much with limited space allocated by the authorities concerned. 

          Now we have a case exposed in the See Hua Daily Newspapers (27Oct2012).  The Siahs at No. 1J Lane 7D  Sibu Jaya housing estate has extended the house vertically and jeopardised the next-door in many ways in their attempt to detach their link.  Is it not the curse Taib Mahmud and his cronies who brought to us people?  I often imagine how desperate I would feel living in such a poor quality lousy house.  Dear brethren, young and old, male and female, let’s feel for them in heart and mind. 

          Of course, the affected next-door neighbour, surnamed Liu feels upset, frustrated and exasperated, too when the Siahs next-door has dis-stablised her house in one way or another and dis-array the electricity cables.  Hence she lodged a complaint to the District council but no action has taken so far.  I think Mdm Liu was ignorant of the real culprit of her plights and distress.  Actually, the district office is in dilemma as they know very well they should ‘beat up’ the developer, the ministers and those high ranking officials for  the plights, menace, distress and anguish they created for the people. 

          I hope someone capable who is kind, good and truthful will form a house buyer association and I promise I will be the first member to join it.  This association is  to help organise protests or sue the developers and government for not setting the right measurements for the houses for the people especially, the poor.   We should rally for our own good.

          Lately, I have also come across a case in Bukit Lima Timur.  My friend Lau and her husband, Siah live in a double-storey terraced house.  I went to their house for a look as I am a very curious person.  I wanted to see the housing conditions there.  The double-storey terraced houses where they live were built with so much saved/ stolen cost of labour and materials (偷工减料).  They are poor but they were forced to borrow money from a relative who was also not rich to extend the canopy outside the kitchen as Lau has to do cooking outside the kitchen.  With the limited money borrowed, she only has the canopy and some simple structures constructed for the stove and gas tank. 

          The door and windows downstairs of their house have just been barred up with the advanced money from Siah’s boss.  Their house has been burgled 3 times as they opened a window  downstairs to ventilate but it let in the burglars.  They are too poor to afford an air conditioner in the house.  To avoid the heat upstairs, they room downstairs.  Hence the sitting room is their sitting room and also their bedroom (multi-purpose).  Luckily, they only have a son to support.

          For 10 over years, they have been disturbed again and again when their 3D next-door  neighbour extends and renovates the house every now and then.  The noise and dust from drilling can be so nerve-racking.  Hence my friend and her 3 D neighbours are not in good terms.  These poor people, I think, are too ignorant to know whom they should band up to fight against.  Hence, I can only comfort her and tell her the truth of her plight hoping that she could bear her nasty neighbour a bit more.

          All in all, I really think that a person does not need too much right to give births more than three.  I really think a person must have his full right to demand for a standard living housing conditions with the right measurements for  houses in the so called ‘planned housing development’.  Don’t ever exploit and plunder the people, especially the poor.  Before you sign the approval and permits for any housing projects, always think of your palace-like mansion and thus ensure the right and decent measurements for houses for  people.  Please guard the interests for the people, not yourselves and the developers!

          What actions do you think our district councils or Sibu municipal councils can take to those 90% of house owners in Sibu who extend their houses horizontally or vertically or both?  I have even heard that some people rich enough even knocked down their houses to rebuild to their taste.  

          What would happen if the small kitchens and poor living  housing conditions make the women so angry that they start to revolt against the BN government.  It is when they have come to the full awareness whom to blame of their plights.   When women start to revolt, they might think of tearing down the palace-like mansions of Taib Mahmud, Wong Soon Koh, Tiong Thai King  ……………