The Borneo Post
(12/2/2019 Tue)
Mud road strikes nerves of villagers (Home Pg. 9)
Kanowit: The
poor condition of the road linking Nanga Ngungun and Nanga Bat is touching the
nerves of people living in Nanga Bat and its surrounding areas in Sungai Ngemah
near here.
A local
4WD vehicle transporter Jamait Bajai, who communtes the route daily said some
stetches along the 8km earth road are often almost impassable especially on
rainy days.
He said that
about two weeks ago, his vehicle stalled in the mud when he was on his way back
home to Nanga Bat.
“It was
getting dark, we had no choice but to leave the vehicle and waited until next
morning to gather some longhouse residents to help move the car.”
“We had
voiced out this matter before but it is so frustrating that nothing is being
done despite years of waiting,” he lamented.
According
to Jamit, the road was a logging track
built more than 16 years ago by a timber company connecting Nanga Bat to Naga
Ngungun and Nanga Ngemah.
He said
that part of the road was tar-sealed by the government – from Nanga Ngemah up
Nanga Ngungun – in early 2011.
“We are
wondering why the road to Nanga Bat has been left like it is now.”
Longhouse
resident Dundang Timban from nearby Nanga Nirok also vented his frustration by
posting photos of the road condition in the Facebook.
The photo
captioned in Iban showed a four-wheel-drive vehicle being pulled by another car
after it had stalled in the mud.
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My comments:
This is the curse of X-BN government. We should not forget and forgive these X-BN Sarawak leaders or X-BN federal leaders for their abuses of power. I wonder how X-BN Sarawak leaders in GPS robes now are going to face the questioning of we Sarawakians when we see these appalling conditions everywhere outside the urban areas.
Sarawak is endowed with so many natural resources and yet we are so deprived of endowment. What a shame!
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