Land matter

12:05 am / Posted by i77uddin /

Salam
It has been a week since last time I updated my blog. Obviously, there is nothing can hype my weekend execpt for Super Sunday: Manchester United vs Chelsea. Haha. Ok, nevermind, for this post I would like to discuss about the best example (I guess) for governance planning. This issue is quite controversy as I came across this article in “The Star”...

Perak defies Putrajaya, to go ahead with freehold plan

By HAH FOONG LIAN and SYLVIA LOOI


IPOH: Perak will go ahead with its plan to issue freehold titles to the 149,000 house owners in 349 planned and 134 new villages despite objections from the Federal Government.

“The state government has instructed land offices to proceed with the processing of the applications from (house owners in) planned and new villages,” Perak senior executive councillor Datuk Ngeh Koo Ham said.

He was responding to a statement by Deputy Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak that the Perak government must first obtain the approval of the National Land Council before converting the leasehold to freehold titles.

Ngeh had earlier attended the Perak Water Board meeting chaired by Mentri Besar Datuk Seri Mohammad Nizar Jamaluddin, who said the state need not wait for the council’s approval, but would submit a report to it.

“The report would be merely for discussion,” Nizar added.

Earlier, in a statement, Ngeh said: “The opinion of the (Deputy Prime Minister) that Perak cannot implement this until a decision is made by the council is at best misconceived.

“In the absence of any legal impediment, the state government can lawfully proceed to implement the proposed conversion of leasehold title to a title in perpetuity.”

From his reading of certain articles of the Federal Constitution and provisions of the National Land Code, Ngeh said, it was for the state authority, and not for the National Land Council, to decide whether the alienation of state land should be in perpetuity or leasehold.

“The action of the Perak government does not contravene any statutory provision,” he said.


When we are talking about the governance, I assure that there should be "political will" regarding this issue. It is about Perak state government lead by Datuk Seri Mohammad Nizar Jamaluddin and Deputy Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak.

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