Ijok land issue: Selangor BN, settlers lodge MACC report next week

SEPANG: The Selangor Barisan Nasional (BN) will lodge a report on the land issue in the sub-district of Ijok to the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) within a period of one week.
Selangor BN information chief, Datuk Dr Mohamed Satim Diman (pix) said several settlers would also lodge a report to the MACC as the compensation that they received was not according to the latest market price.
He questioned the action of the Selangor state government in returning the land concerned to the companies Mujur Zaman Sdn Bhd and LBCN Development Sdn Bhd which later sold the land to third parties according to the market price totalling RM1.18 billion, whereas the compensation received by the settlers only amounted to about RM420 million.
"It's puzzling that the compensation paid to the settlers was based on the old price in the year 2000. If they (the company concerned) could sell (the land) according to the market price, why was the compensation paid to the settlers not according to the market price?
"So it has become a question mark as to what happened to the balance of the proceeds of the land sale which was almost RM800 million?" Mohd Satim posed the question to reporters at the program 'Jelajah Kasih Negeriku Selangor' organised by the Selangor BN Information at Ladang Fermanagh, Sungai Pelek, here today.
Selangor Mentri Besar Datuk Seri Mohamed Azmin Ali was earlier reported to have announced a compensation payment of RM180,000 in cash and a house worth RM250,000 each to the 980 settlers involving a total value of RM421.4 million.
Last Wednesday, the director of the BN Strategic Communications, Datuk Seri Abdul Rahman Dahlan, had pressured Mohamed Azmin to give a clarification on the swift action of the state government in handing over the land worth RM1.18 billion in the sub-district of Ijok to the two companies concerned in 2016.
He questioned Azmin's justification in not waiting for the case to be heard in the Federal Court as the decisions of the High Court and the Court of Appeal in 2013 and 2014 on the re-acquisition of the land from the two companies concerned had been in favour of the state government.
Meanwhile, Mohamed Satim said the housing issue involved about 100 families in the Ladang Fermanagh, Sungai Merbau and Sungai Rawang in the State Assembly constituency of Tanjung Sepat and would be included in the local manifesto of Selangor BN.
"These are private land and the residents here cannot afford to buy houses according to the market price. If the state government wants to help them, buy this land for the development of affordable homes," he said.
He said the issue had been prolonged for the past 25 years and could not be resolved because of the problem of the land ownership involved. — Bernama