The PM has six days to respond to a demand for federal funding of new homes.
PETALING JAYA: Residents of the Taman Permata flats in Dengkil picketed outside Prime Minister Najib Tun Razak’s office today to demand a permanent solution to their housing woes.
They gave him until Wednesday to respond, failing which they would camp there indefinitely as well as outside his Seri Perdana residence.
Their spokesman, N Kumaran, said he submitted to Najib’s office a memorandum demanding that the federal government build low-cost terrace houses on a plot of land that the Selangor government had earmarked for the purpose.
The memorandum pointed out that the Sepang Muncipal Council had certified one block of the flats as unfit for occupancy.
“We have been forced to live in tents outside the flats and some of us are using the town hall, which is about two kilometres away,” Kumaran said.
Today’s demonstrators come from a group of 400 plantation workers who lost their jobs and homes in 1998 to make way for the development of Putrajaya as the national administrative capital. They were moved to five blocks of flats in Taman Permata.
In 2011, the state government allocated for them a plot of land adjacent to the Taman Permata Tamil School under a deal in which the federal government undertook to finance the construction of houses.
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