The replacement land for the Taman Manggis affordable housing project is 10 times larger than the original, Penang Chief Minister Lim Guan Eng reiterated today.
He said this amid a protracted exchange between him and Urban Wellbeing, Housing and Local Government Minister Abdul Rahman Dahlan, who has been raising issue with the alleged kickbacks linked to the the Taman Manggis land sale.
“Density for housing and commercial (developments are) different and we provided a bigger piece of a 11-acre land (10 times more) to do affordable housing and low-medium-cost (housing),” Lim wrote on his Twitter account today.
He was responding to another tweet by Rahman, who questioned Lim's claims that the Taman Manggis last was too small for a affordable housing project.
Rahman said the 1.1-acre Taman Manggis land, purported to be the earmarked for an affordable housing project, was in fact the second phase of a two-part project.
“Phase 1 and 2 together is 4.92 acres, more than the two acres size Lim said was the minimum size for the People's Housing Programme (PPR). So how can Lim think it's too small?
“I don't understand Lim's logic. He said land is too small for a 17-floor low-cost PPR, but enough for a 30-floor hospital and hotel?” Rahman (photo) asked.
However, Lim told Rahman, via Twitter, that there there are no public housing projects in Phase 2.
“(It is) only stated in the layout plan submitted by National Housing Board as 'for future development',” he said.
Lim is currently under fire for supposedly buying a bungalow on Jalan Pinhorn at below the market price, which is purported to be a kickback linked to the Taman Manggis land sale.
This pertains to a 0.4-hectare Taman Manggis plot that was sold for RM11 million and is slated to be the site for the Penang Island Dental College.
Lim had said that the Taman Manggis public housing project had beenreplaced with a 11-acre plot instead, located on Jalan SP Chelliah.
He has consistently denied wrongdoing, insisting that the Taman Manggis land sale was conducted via open tender, and that his Jalan Pinhorn bungalow was bought on a 'willing-buyer, willing-seller' basis. -Mkini
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