Jinjang Selatan Tambahan residents have called off a housing-related protest initially planned to take place outside Parliament one hour before the tabling of Budget 2018.
This is because they have been granted a meeting with Kuala Lumpur City Hall (DBKL), thus fulfilling the reason for their planned protest, explained residents action committee secretary Ameer Khan Bargathalli today.
“We had ten buses (scheduled to come) but I called them off after we got a meeting on Monday (Sept 30),” he told reporters alongside the road leading to the Parliament building.
Ameer Khan added that he had received the letter less than three hours before from DBKL’s Economic Planning Unit.
Police had barred him, along with the 13 other residents accompanying him, from making the announcement at the Parliament entrance.
Today’s protest, which was announced earlier this week, was against two eviction notices previously issued to them by DBKL. Both were not enforced after protests from residents.
Residents deny they are squatters as they claim to have had temporary occupancy licences (TOL) for their homes since 1969.
More than 500 residents live in 107 houses located within a 69ha plot of land in Jinjang Selatan Tambahan, gazetted to be redeveloped by DBKL together with Zil Land Sdn Bhd.
DBKL had previously made them two offers but both were rejected, as residents say they have little confidence in the ability of Zil Land to deliver on those offers.
The group previously protested to get Prime Minister Najib Abdul Razak’s attention, had a meeting with Federal Territories Minister Tengku Adnan Tengku Mansor and raised their woes to the Human Rights Commission of Malaysia (Suhakam).- Mkini
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