PERSPECTIVE: We do not need more concrete steel and glass structures in our capital!

ANON

Grateful that you highlighted the plight of the Kampong Setia Jaya people.

They are being evicted and where they have lived for generations cold concrete and glass blocks will come up to be known as an additional campus of TAR College.

Our country does need more well-run educational institutions like that college which produces good quality technocrats and IT specialists. The cost in this instance seems exorbitant. People are being displaced without any alternative place to move to.

This is exactly how those rubber-tapping families from the Perang Besar estate and other rubber plantation areas in its vicinity were thrown out to make way for Putrajaya. Once evicted these people lose their identity, dignity, their livelihood, their family ecosystems and their place in our society.

This is a serious crisis threatening our country because there is a dangerous collusive conspiracy between political leaders, corporate chieftains, bungling bureaucrats and some law enforcement agencies. We do not need more concrete steel and glass structures in our capital. We need a humanitarian administration with a heart where every Malaysian is valued, respected and properly compensated. It is a cruel thing to forcibly remove people from a place and not provide them with an alternative place to live in. Sad indeed.