Satu Lagi Kes Janji Gula-Gula Pilhanraya!!

Where’s the proposed Ba Kelalan project?

Borneo Post Online
March 4, 2010, Thursday
BA KELALAN: Lun Bawangs in Ba Kelalan are wondering when the government will actually start their micro hydro-electric project.

POSER ON MICRO-HEP: Tadam (right) and Frederick show pictures of the pipes that are supposed to be used for the micro-hydro electric project in Ba Kelalan.

They have waited long for the project but it has not taken off. The project which is meant to benefit about 1,000 Buduk Nur and Long Langai villagers, was approved by the federal government to ease their dependence on diesel generators.
That is well and fine, but today the village development and security committee (JKKK) of Buduk Nur is unhappy because the contractor has yet to turn up in the highlands.
A member of the JKKK, Tadam Arun, said the government has allocated a big fund for the project and it should have taken off by now.
Accompanied by chairman of Sarawak Lun Bawang Association chiarman, Frederick Lalung Ngilo, he said optimism has turned into suspicion and scepticism in the two villages.

“What we saw are only pipes piled up in our area but there has been no signs of work starting and the villagers want to know what the problems are,” he said.

The villagers are willing to undertake it on ‘gotong-royong’ (voluntary communal) basis if the contractor is unwilling to proceed with the project.
Tadam, who is also PBB Ba Kelalan Youth secretary, said locals have yearned for the project for years so the delay was heart-breaking to them.
Electricity and roads have topped the list of their requests to every top government official.
He pointed out that the proposed mini hydroelectric dams at Kampung Buduk Nur and Long Langai are regarded as a lifeline and hence have long been part of the development plans for them.
The area also has a primary school and health clinic which could be powered by the micro-HEP dams.
Tadam also pointed to the water piping system which has failed since June last year. It has yet to be rectified. Locals are currently depending on their old gravity-feed water supply systems.

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Sheikh Sambal dah banyak kali kata, janji projek hanya gula-gula kepada penduduk kampung. Janji macam-macam projek pembangunan dan infrastruktur, tunjuk sikit kerja seperti hantar paip, cacak tiang dan kumpul batu-bata. Selepas itu senyap. Ke mana duit peruntukan pergi kita pun tak tahu. Mungkin ini sebahagian daripada kes ketirisan 60% projek kerajaan yang di laporkan oleh SPRM Sarawak beberapa bulan dulu.

Kes di Ba Kelalan ini adalah kes biasa yang kita boleh dapat dari banyak tempat di kawasan pendalaman. Tunggulah sehingga musim pilihanraya sekali lagi baru ada kerja sikit. Selepas BN menang, tinggalah projek terbengkalai sehingga datang musim pilihanraya baru. Sementara itu, mana-mana projek yang boleh disonglap, songlaplah dulu!....

(Baca juga entri terdahulu pasal janji-janji pilihanraya)

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