BY Andrew Daniels
SIMANGGANG, Sept 30, 2015 - A week after DAP Sri Aman
branch highlighted the plight of Batu Lintang Undup residents requesting for
clean treated water, some community leaders from Kara,Bukit Begunan and Lachau
have asked its branch chairman Leon Jimat Donald to air their greviances.
The drought has hit the residents of the longhouses
hard and they are now asking that DAP
Sri Aman write on their behalf to request to Chief Minister Adenan Satem to
have a water treatment water plant be built in Lachau as to provide clean
treated water to the many longhouses in these areas.
Leon Jimat Donald suggesting that the government builds a new treatment plant at Lachau.
"We have lost hope in our elected representatives in
highlighting our problems of treated water so that is why we are turning to
Leon for help', said one Tuai Rumah from who requested anonymity.
"The people now are more aware of their rights and
privileges and the BN government must
not try to ignore their requests this time around.
"The introduction of GST has not only burdened the
longhouse people but it has also made them more aware that the tax collected is
their money as such they are now demanding more basic amenities be built after
52 years of misinformation by the BN propaganda," said Leon, who is also
the Sarawak DAP vice chairman, in a press statement.
'I hope that the State Government will be building a new
water treatment plant in Lachau which will be connected to the Pantu and Sri
Aman main water pipes.
"Adenan must be seen as serious in building these
basic amenities here since the CM has created the formation of a new Water
Ministry which is headed by Datuk Seri Awang Tengah.
"Water is an essential part of life and access to
clean treated water should be paramount in the planning of Sri Aman Division. I
will also be requesting that my colleagues who are members of the State
Legislative Assembly to highlight and propose this as well," added Leon.
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