Published: Sunday November 29, 2009 MYT 5:36:00 PM
‘S’gor govt did not leak Bkt Antarabangsa landslide report online’
PETALING JAYA: The Selangor state government was not responsible for the full report of the Bukit Antarabangsa landslide exposed online, said Selangor executive councillor member Dr A. Xavier Jayakumar.
He said they were not aware of the report being leaked over the Internet nor did they know who had released the report.
“It shows that people think the truth should be out,” he said in a telephone interview Sunday.
On Saturday, an online news portal reported that the 86-page report on the controversial Bukit Antarabangsa landslide that damaged 14 bungalows and took five lives Dec 6 last year was made available by Rapidshare.
The Selangor state government had promised to make available the full report of the landslide on November 23 and people could get it from the Ampang Jaya Municipal Council (MPAJ) office.
However, after Selangor Mentri Besar Tan Sri Khalid Ibrahim released a summary of the report on November 18, the Works Minister said the state had to make an application for the report, which is classified under the Official Secrets Act, to be released through the MPAJ.
So, Khalid on Thursday directed the Ampang Jaya Municipal Council to write to the Works Ministry to release the Bukit Antarabangsa report for public reference.
Dr Jayakumar said the state government was discussing the matter and would make a statement on the next course of action by Wednesday.
Bukit Antarabangsa Residents Action Committee chairman Datuk N. Muneandy said that if the report was not revealed in a week’s time, he and 2,000 residents would demonstrate at the tragedy site.
“We will come up with a memorandum to urge the Federal Government to release the report,” he said.
He said the committee went to the MPAJ on Thursday and they could not get the report even though the Works Ministry had said that those affected could have access to the report.
“The council said they were still waiting for the green light to release the report,” he said.
As to what he thought about the full report that was released online, he said they could not rely on hearsay for their claims.
Datuk Muneandy said that the affected residents had waited for the report for almost a year and life had been difficult for them because they could not take any legal action or sell their properties as no bank would approve buyers’ loans.
Even the remedial work had not completed and most were reluctant to move back to their homes, he said.
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