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High five to Lim Kit Siang for audaciously exposed the misconduct of Dahlan
(then Minister of Urban Wellbeing Housing and Local Government) who abused his
power, as well as the wife of Apandi, the AG who faked her position as the
director of a con contractor!!!
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The
Kuala Lumpur High
Court yesterday set aside the order by the then Urban Wellbeing Housing and
Local Government Minister to give a 12-month extension to a developer, BHL
Construction Sdn. Bhd., to complete its condominium project in Jalan Kuchai
Lama, Kuala Lumpur.
Justice Hanipah Farikullah, who allowed the judicial review application by 104
house buyers, said the minister’s decision to rely on a regulation to allow the
extension was against the Housing Development (Control & Licensing) Act.
BHL Construction Sdn Bhd was involved in the construction of a condominium in
Jalan Kuchai Lama in Kuala Lumpur where 104 plaintiffs had entered into a sale
and purchase agreement with them.
One of the
conditions of the agreement required that the developer hand over vacant
possession within 36 months or be liable to pay a penalty for late delivery to
the buyers.
The developer failed to complete and hand over the units to the 104 purchasers
and wrote to the Controller of Housing under the ministry for an extension of
time. The appeal was rejected.
The developer then
appealed to the Housing Minister at the time, Datuk Abdul Rahman Dahlan who, on
November 17, 2015, allowed an extension of 12 months.
That decision would have allowed the developer to hand over vacant possession
to the buyers from 36 months to 48 months.
Aggrieved, the purchasers sought legal remedy in the courts last year.
I fully agree with
the National House Buyers Association secretary-general Chang Kim Loong, who
said the rights and entitlement to compensation could not be taken away by the
Controller of Housing or the minister with a stroke of a pen.
Parties are bound by the terms of the contract and any modification or
variation of the agreement will require the consent of purchasers.
There are several serious issues in this case.
The person who wrote
to the then Minister of Urban Wellbeing, Housing and Local Government Datuk
Abdul Rahman Dahlan seeking a 12-month extension, was the wife of the
Attorney-General, Faridah Begum binti K.A.Abdul Kader, who misrepresented
herself as Director of BHL.
A check with the Registrar of Companies showed she was not a director of BhL
Construction Sdn. Bhd.
Three serious conflict-of-interest questions arise here:
Firstly,
how is the Attorney-General
Tan Sri Mohd Appandi Ali going to give consent to prosecute his wife for making
false representation and false claim as a director of BHL Construction Sdn. Bhd
in an appeal letter to the then Minister of Urban Wellbeing, Housing and Local
Government to abuse his power, when she was not a director of BHL Construction
Sdn. Bhd.
Secondly,
she has written a
letter to the then Minister of Urban Wellbeing, Housing and Local Government
giving a frivolous reason in the application for the extension. By virtue of
the Minister’s approval, housebuyers were not able to get compensation for late
delivery of their homes. The total amount runs into millions.
Why did Abdul Rahman
succumbed to such frivolous reasons to abuse
his Ministerial powers – or was it just because the letter was written by the
wife of the Attorney-General?
Abdul Rahman Dahlan is duty-bound to state how many Ministerial decisions had
he made during his short stint as Housing Minister illegally giving developers
extension for completion of their housing projects, in violation of
sale-and-purchase agreement concluded with house buyers.
The Minister’s decision has now been quashed by the Kuala Lumpur court. How
could the minister give extensions based on such frivolous reasons such as
stop-work-orders. Such orders were given because the developer breached the
laws and inconvenienced the neighbourhood.
Although Abdul Rahman Dahlan has shifted to another Ministry, he is duty bound
to explain and justify his Ministerial decision to give a 12-month extension in
November 2015 – and to vindicate in the court of public opinion whether there
is any ground for such a decision or whether it was completely arbitrary,
namely the applicant was sent by Faridah Begum, the wife of the
Attorney-General.
While it is not
legally wrong for the Attorney-General’s wife to be gainfully employed, the
last thing she should be engaged in is to make false representation and to make
false claims to enable a Minister to arbitrarily abuse his powers.
There is a third question.
Hypothetically, how can Appandi be expected to give consent
to prosecute developers when his wife is a “lobbyist” of sorts for developers?
Both Apandi Ali and Abdul Rahman Dahlan should explain themselves.
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