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| "People First" policy? Then come help us now! Posted: 06 Jun 2011 01:31 PM PDT Deputy Prime Minister Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin had went to the ground on Jun 5 in an effort to meet the Federal Territories constituents while promising to resolve issues. "If he is sincere about helping the citizens, why don't he come to Bukit Jalil and help us to protect our land?" a resident asked. The Bukit Jalil residents were currently involved in a land tussle with DBKL, whereby the latter had labeled the residents as squatters although the residents were former estate workers at the Bukit Jalil rubber plantation. "Four generations have lived here, and now DBKL wants to evict us by claiming that we are squatters. Our ancestors were here even before Merdeka, how can they twist the truth and claim that we are squatters?" The spat between the residents and DBKL had been brought to the judicial courts, where the former had applied for an interim injunction to stop DBKL from evicting them. Unfortunately for the residents, the Kuala Lumpur High Court recently ruled in favour of DBKL, giving the latter a free hand to evict the residents, in spite of damning evidence that proves otherwise. To make matters worse, DBKL had on two occassions (May 25 and Jun 6), sent over a large team of 40 to 50 personnel comprising of its own officers, police and sometimes, gangsters to harass the residents despite the court order approving the extension of the interim injunction. Residents expressed shock that DBKL and also the police, who were supposed to uphold the law, had shown contempt of the court by trespassing while the injunction was still in effect. "How can they say that they were following orders of the (Federal Territories) Minister? Does this mean that ministers do not have to uphold the law?" another resident, K. Balakrishnan said. To-date, more than 100 police reports had been lodged against DBKL for various transgressions like trespassing, sexual harassment, threats and physical violence, amongst others.
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| Posted: 06 Jun 2011 09:48 AM PDT Many years ago, our country suffered the worse outage in our nation's history. We were without electricity for many days. Manufacturers lost a lot of money. Industrialists were screaming their heads off and their voices reached Sri Perdana, the abode of the 4th PM then. He came up with the solution. We have this problem because TNB has a monopoly. Monopoly is not good. Dependency on one supplier isn't strategic. It can be outright dangerous not to mention can cause untold economic damages if the system breaks down. Let's deregulate the electricity industry he proclaims. So Ananda, YTL, Genting and others came rushing in. we can supply electricity sir. But we need to have iron clad agreements so that our investments are well covered. We must have a guaranteed purchase from TNB at secure prices. But sir in order to generate our current, we need cheap fuels. Otherwise we bungkus or consumers will have to pay more. Never mind says sir, I control PETRONAS. I will ask them to sell you natural gas at subsidized rates. And so government pays subsidies up to RM 19 billion a year. As many people now know, the electricity we consumed passes through 4 stages. Generation, transmission, distribution and retailing. But boss, we will only generate electricity. We won't go into transmission, distribution and retailing. These are costly. Tarak untung. Kadang kadang untung. In other words, TNB which has to invest in all 4 stages can offer us cheaper tariffs, but the IPPs awarded license which offer only generation of electricity cannot. How can this be? Apa nama? Macam mana? Deregulation created an opposite effect in Malaysia. We ended up having to pay higher electricity tariffs because TENAGA was forced to buy electricity from IPPs who charged more for the electricity than if Tenaga produced it itself! We come now to the stupid remark by the minister who says the government is powerless to reveal details of the PPA. Wasn't it the government that 'negotiated' the deals with the IPPs? So why can't we have access to the details? Who were the first entrants to the IPP business? Genting Sanyen, YTL Power, Malakoff, SEV, Prai Power,Powertek, GB3, Tanjung Bin Power and Kapar Energy are among the two dozen or so IPPs in Malaysia. All of the above are owned by the Genting Lims, Francis Yeoh, Syed Mokhtar and Ananda Krishnan. These were the usual suspects consisting of the connected businessmen who get most of the big deals.
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