Satu Solution Corporate ServicesSenior MBPJ officials own low-cost flats
by R. Nadeswaran, Terence Fernandez and Llew-Ann Phang
PETALING JAYA (May 20, 2010): SHE is chauffeur-driven in an official four-wheel drive on duties and states her address in official documents as a double-storey corner terrace house in Kota Damansara. But Sharipah Marhaini Syed Ali is also the owner of the low-cost apartment in Ara Damansara and happens to be the planning director of the Petaling Jaya City Council (MBPJ).
She is not the only senior official owning a low-cost apartment.
MBPJ’s senior assistant engineer, Hanizah Katab, owns one in the same block – and so does about 500 other MBPJ employees, many using the names of wives, husbands and relatives to own low-cost homes in Petaling Jaya.
By her own admission, Sharipah is not the only director who owns a low-cost flat. Questioned by a councillor, she charged that there are other “directors and deputy directors” who own such properties.
In a reply to a memo from Deputy Mayor Puasa Md Taib dated Feb 4, Sharipah argued that “if the policy is that those earning above RM2,500 are not eligible, then all the other officers involved should be asked to explain”.
Going by the state government’s guidelines on eligibility for low-cost units, they would not qualify by a mile because only those having combined family income of less than RM2,500 a month can apply.
However, according to Sharipah, there was a policy introduced in 2001, when the council took over squatter eradication efforts from the state, to allocate low-cost units to council staff.
This decision, however, was in contravention of the state’s policy, which restricted the sale of low-cost units to those with a household income of not more than RM2,500.
Executive councillor in charge of poverty eradication Dr Xavier Jeyakumar said the policy still stands. “The state government’s policy on first-time ownership of low-cost units has not changed, and any exemption by the housing department must be sanctioned by the Exco,” he said.
However, documents made available to theSun revealed how the RM2,500 criteria could be circumvented (see also page 8).
Most, if not all, the low-cost units are not owner-occupied. Instead, they are an extra source of income because they can fetch rentals of up to RM500 a month.
Sharipah’s monthly bank loan repayment is RM322. Her apartment has been unoccupied for two months. According to neighbours, the Indonesian construction workers who were renting it had left for Kuantan after finishing a development project nearby.
Hanizah is collecting RM400 a month from an Indian family of six.
However, a search at MBPJ’s Valuation Department showed that in her application for the low-cost flat, Sharipah gave her address as a double-storey corner house on Jalan Nuri, Section 7 Kota Damansara, estimated at about RM450,000. Hanizah gave an address in Nilai.
The issue of MBPJ staff owning low-cost flats was first raised by councillor K.W. Mak in February when he asked the State Select Committee for Competency, Accountability and Transparency (Selcat) to investigate the non-compliance and malpractices in the sale of such apartments to non-eligible applicants.
In a statement last week, Mak said he had written to Mayor Datuk Roslan Sakiman on April 29 to also conduct investigations.
Mak raised the issues after receiving complaints from former squatters who were promised low-cost units but never received offers once the construction of the low-cost flat was completed.
“These former squatters have shown me proof that they were interviewed and given alternative accommodation prior to waiting for the demolition of their village to make way for development and subsequent relocation to the completed flat in their former locale,” he said.
Last week, two residents who had complained to Mak turned to theSun claiming that MBPJ officers had taken away apartments meant for them.
Mak said he has yet to see documents supporting the so-called policy to open up low-cost units to council staff.
In a statement today, MBPJ said developers offered excess units in eight low-cost housing schemes, on private lands, to its management team from year 2000.
Apa kata survey ?
Apakah berita ini akan menyebabkan syarat syarat pembelian rumah pangsapuri kos rendah diperketatkan lagi ?
Bagaimana kita nak beli hartanah kos rendah menerusi lelongan ?
Apakah kelonggaran yang diberi ?
Siapa lagi yang berminat untuk beli rumah kos rendah ?
May 21, 2010 at 12:59:37
hahaa..kantoi dahh… palie(Quote)
May 21, 2010 at 14:04:27
Antara Flat yang terlibat :
- Damai Flats by Tropicana Golf and Country Resort Sdn Bhd;
- Flora Damansara Flats by Saujana Triangle Sdn Bhd;
- Damansara Damai by Medan Prestasi Sdn Bhd;
- Sri Damansara Flats by Bandar Sri Damansara Sdn Bhd;
- Sri Jati Flats, Ara Damansara by Sime Pilmoor Development Sdn Bhd; and
- Desa Mutiara by Mutiara Damansara Sdn Bhd. tuanbri(Quote)
May 21, 2010 at 16:06:11
bri,
isu tu bukan sebab diorang jadi 1st owner ke?
aku rase, subsale (dan lelong) x terikat dgn isu ni, as long as ikot prosedur
treec00l(Quote)
May 21, 2010 at 16:12:59
cerita ini cuma disensasikan aje….kalau betul salah, kenapa cuma pegawai ni aje yg kena? Pegawai MPSJ? MPK? MPAJ?MBSA? SUK?….wah…wah… hafez(Quote)
May 21, 2010 at 17:40:09
Treecool – Subsale tak terlibat Treecool ?
hehehe.. how sure are you ?
Palie – ada orang buat surat beracun…
Hafiz – ni permulaan. Surat beracun tu dihantar ke media. tuanbri(Quote)
May 21, 2010 at 19:00:42
Bri.. mcmn nak tau rumah mana affected..
Nak tanya.. mcmn nak add rss feed blog kwn2 mcm ko buat ni.. aku dah cari nota tak jumpa2 la.. Wida(Quote)
May 21, 2010 at 20:54:45
This decision, however, was in contravention of the state’s policy, which restricted the sale of low-cost units to those with a household income of not more than RM2,500.
Executive councillor in charge of poverty eradication Dr Xavier Jeyakumar said the policy still stands. “The state government’s policy on first-time ownership of low-cost units has not changed, and any exemption by the housing department must be sanctioned by the Exco,” he said
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dari atas tu kalau yg aku paham, mmg dia kate utk beli baru je tak bole bri. omph(Quote)
May 21, 2010 at 21:49:30
biasanya subsale masih kena ikut rule mcm 1st owner..
in one side of view, rule ni bagus gak sebenarnya.. sbb low income group ni takde rumah lain dah diorg boleh beli… tgk la projek baru semua mahal2.. rohaniahnoor(Quote)
May 22, 2010 at 13:06:58
tapi kalau lelong, low income group pn tak beli…habis tu takkan nak dibiarkan je macam tu? aap solution yang boleh dilakukan di sini bila low income group pn tak boleh nak beli…n at the first place,rumah tu kena lelong pn pasal the first owner which come from from low income group takleh nak serve loan? adakah salah investor sebab beli rumah low cost?
Tapi kalau ada kes low cost group di deny hak mereka untuk memiliki rumah baru low cost pasal ada ’special people’ nak beli, tu memang tidak adil la…hampuk je diorang tu… eezone(Quote)
May 23, 2010 at 22:53:12
Salam, semua sya ada tertnaya-tanyer pasai hal nie hari tur.. sampai saya check ngan lawyer and some senior property agent. masalahnya concern hanya perlu jikalau beli sub-sale yang dah ada title kalo master tittle, wajib kena mintak lembaga perumhaan negeri selangor. kalo nasib baik title dah keluar takpayah nak mintak concern… sbb title dah jadik milik owner.. so kalo sub-sale jadik senang. tapi some area diorang tak indicate perlu ker xperlu concern masih blurr… pasai lelong lagi sya xpasti.. sya syorkan kalo bila umah lowcost, cari yang dah keluar title. mcm baru2 nie sya ambik satu kat angsana subang mewah usj1. title dah ade insyallah semuayer beras, nie umah lowcost…tapi sewa bleh pergi 450~550 basic unit. Sya pun ade check ngan master Bri kita hari tur pasal concer nie…. ok arious md_salim(Quote)
May 25, 2010 at 01:27:58
22 may – resolution alliance
aku bid untuk flat kos rendah taman samudra
sold 40k – aku kalah bid tu cause rumah tuh rumah bangkai.. aku tak berani untuk letak harga tinggi but very high rental potential – good location n near with all the acces . bro bri ni briter baik or buruk ? erm.. baru nak carik flat² kos rendah nak cover duit enpon.. hehe helmo(Quote)
May 25, 2010 at 13:54:37
tuanbri,
selagi dapat consent dari kerajaan negeri, proceed je. hehehe.
kalo kemudian hari sangkot, tarik semue lah, hahahaha. dari lawyer, vendor, developer, kerajaan negeri :p
tapi ni angan-angan je, bukan cite betol
treec00l(Quote)
May 26, 2010 at 10:49:15
nk jual low cost selangor kn lepas 5 tahun
aku da tanye lphs bling2(Quote)