Ghani! Tell us how much Petronas has
paid for Rapid!
By Chua Jui Meng
Chua delivering his ceramah at the
1,000-people dinner organised by the Federation of Pengerang NGOs in Dewan Poh
An Kong in Sungai Rengit on March 16, 2012.
I
WISH to challenge and dare Johor Mentri Besar Ghani Othman to reveal the amount
of compensation Petronas has given for the 22,500 acres in Pengerang for the non-sustainable Petronas Refinery and Petrochemical
Integrated Development (Rapid) project.
Why
is Ghani shying away from telling Johoreans, especially the Pengerang folk who
are affected by the compulsory land acquisition, how much Petronas has paid up for
compensation?
Why
is there no transparency in such a simple matter? What is there to hide?
From
what I have heard, Petronas has paid up a high amount of compensation. Ghani,
tell Johoreans how many multiple million ringgit is involved?
Are
you (Ghani) not telling because you want to short change the majority Malay
land owners in Pengerang?
Johoreans
are being had again by the Ghani-led Barisan Nasional (BN)-Umno state
government.
It
is a reprise of Nusajaya when the then mentri besar Muhyiddin Yassin used the
second Singapore-Johor link as an excuse to “seize” 33,000 acres at only 64 sen
psf under the Land Acquisition Act.
Last
December’s sale of 55 acres of Danga Bay to China’s Country Garden Holdings Ltd
for RM900 million is a clear example of the massive loss of the land owners.
The
land was acquired by the Johor state government at only 45 sen psf and
alienated to crony private developers.
Now,
Ghani is using Rapid as the excuse to acquire 22,500 acres in Pengerang when
Rapid only needed 6,000 acres.
The
real reason for acquiring such a massive land bank is a third link -
Singapore-Pengerang.
Prime
Minister Najib Abdul Razak had in May 2009 met his Singapore counterpart Lee
Hsien Loong and proposed the third link.
Chua having a serious discussion with
PAS vice-president Salahuddin Ayub at the dinner.
Even
on security matters, like in Sabah’s Lahad Datu, Najib and Umno want to
politicise the issue when lives are at stake.
For
more than 10 years some 1.5 million Sulu people were given the freedom to enter
Sabah and given identification cards and bumiputra status.
Why
did Najib or the BN government failed to react swiftly by sending in the army
when armed soldiers invaded our country?
Instead,
Najib sent the police and Home Minister Hisahmmuddin Hussein to have teh tarik with the invaders for three
weeks.
Only
after negotiations broke down and six cops were killed did Najib see fit to
send in the army.
This
is a useless government.
