Johor Crown Prince Tunku Ismail Sultan Ibrahim today alluded to efforts to “finish off” the royalty which he alleged were being plotted by a “Kadir”
“Kadir, I know about the meeting in Menara Ilham. Please proceed.
“But like I said before, if you want to finish us, you must finish us completely. You can’t do it halfway or 50 percent. You must go all out 110 percent,” the prince tweeted today.
He added they should resolve the people’s problems while they are at it.
While he did not clearly spell out who “Kadir” was, this is believed to refer to Prime Minister Dr Mahathir Mohamad’s media adviser A Kadir Jasin.
Menara Ilham is where fellow Mahathir strongman Daim Zainuddin is based, and Kadir was often there when the Council of Eminent Persons headed by Daim was meeting.
HRH Crown Prince of Johor@HRHJohorIIKadir i know abt the meeting in menara Ilham. Pls proceed. But like i said before. Nak finish us, must finish completely. Tk boleh half way atau 50%. You must go all out 110%. My opinion. Buat masa yang sama please selesaikan masaalah Rakyat. Itupun kalau sudi. Hanya pandangan.
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Tunku Ismail’s comments come as the Johor royal family faces scrutiny over a land issueinvolving the Johor Bahru-Singapore Rapid Transit System (RTS).
Sources told Malaysiakini the project had stalled due to a cost spike as a result of land intended for the project ending up in the hands of Johor’s Sultan Ibrahim Sultan Iskandar which would require heavy compensation to reacquire.
Sultan Ibrahim had since said that he was prepared to surrender one of the plots involved at Bukit Chagar without cost.
Apart from the 4.5-hectare Bukit Chagar land, another 2.4-hectare plot to be used for the RTS project is also under the Johor sultan’s ownership.
Collectively, they would cost the government RM693.7 million in compensation to the Johor ruler, which amounts to about 13 percent of the overall project cost.
The land referred to by the Johor sultan is the 4.5-hectare Lot PTB 23354 which would have cost the government RM495.3 million.
No mention was made about the 2.4-hectare Lot 45419, which will cost the government RM198.4 million. – mkini
Leave it to PM to settle Bukit Chagar land issue, says former exco
THE Bukit Chagar land issue linked to the rapid transit system (RTS) should be settled without incurring extra costs, said former Johor exco Mazlan Bujang.
He said he was aware that the 4.5ha land had been earmarked for the Johor-Singapore RTS when he headed the state works, infrastructure and transport committee.
“The Bukit Chagar land issue (concerns) a federal project, not the state government. It is between the Malaysian and Singaporean governments for the RTS project,” said Mazlan, who was dropped from the state executive council last month.
“Let Prime Minister Dr Mahathir Mohamad… settle it amicably. We also hope that we can save the people’s money. We do not want the people’s money to be used for non-essential things,” he told reporters after opening a rural well-being programme by the Azman Hashim International Business School of Universiti Teknologi Malaysia in Johor Baru today.
He said the RTS project was inked between Malaysia and Singapore during the Barisan Nasional era.
Yesterday, Dr Mahathir said the federal government would claim back the Bukit Chagar land if it was true that it had been transferred to Johor’s Sultan Ibrahim Sultan Iskandar without undergoing the proper procedure.
If the plot had been bought by any party, the government would buy it back because it was federal land, he said.
Today, Sultan Ibrahim’s private secretary, Jaba Mohd Noah, said the ruler is willing to hand over the land to the government for free if it is to be used for RTS.
In a statement, Jaba said the sultan has expressed disappointment over a report linking the project’s increased cost to the Bukit Chagar land he owns, and that the ruler was never told the plot is to be used for RTS. – Bernama
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