KUALA LUMPUR - Tourism and Culture Minister Datuk Seri Mohamed Nazri Aziz has told SRK(C) Chin Woo to accept the land lease offer or surrender the ministry's land it is on.
China Press reported today that Nazri had reiterated that a plot of state land the school is occupying belongs to the ministry and that the school had encroached on it.
He said this at a ministry's function here on Monday when asked by the media to comment on Chin Woo's request for the ministry to rescind the term "encroacher" it used to describe the school as well as for more time to consider the offer to lease the land.
Nazri said the issue had dragged on for two years and the ministry will not extend the deadline. "What they can do now is to accept our offer, or leave."
Conditions
A day earlier at a meeting with representatives of Chinese groups, Chin Woo's directors felt that the conditions set by the ministry were contentious and wanted the Dec 20 deadline to accept the offer to be extended by 60 days.
The Cabinet had earlier decided to allow Chin Woo to continue to use the land for another 20 years by leasing it, on four conditions:
>Acknowledge that the land belongs to the ministry;
>No permanent structure to be erected at the occupied land, i.e. the status quo be maintained;
>Agree to a 20-year lease at RM1,000 a year; and
>To show proof that the school's pupil population does not decrease from the 15th year of the lease onwards.
>No permanent structure to be erected at the occupied land, i.e. the status quo be maintained;
>Agree to a 20-year lease at RM1,000 a year; and
>To show proof that the school's pupil population does not decrease from the 15th year of the lease onwards.
On Nov 20, the ministry gave the school one month to accept the offer or face eviction.
The 84-year-old school, located on Jalan Pasar, has been using the particularly plot of land as a basketball court. - The Sundaily
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