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TAMPIN (Negri Sembilan): The Ampang Jaya Municipal Council (MPAJ) can finally make public the investigation report on the Bukit Antarabangsa landslide.
Works Minister Datuk Shaziman Abu Mansor said Saturday Dec 5 the government has approved the MPAJ's request to publicise the report following the decision reached at the Cabinet meeting on Friday.
"The decision was made to ensure that the interest and safety of the people in the area are safeguarded. I hope the MPAJ will not merely disclose the report but also understand and implement the recommendations made to reduce the risk of a recurrence of a similar ilandslide in future," he told reporters after a 'gotong-royong' programme to repair the houses of poor families in Kampung Baru Air Kuning Selatan, near here.
He said on Nov 25, the MPAJ had written a letter to him requesting that the report be declassified under the Official Secrets Act (OSA) 1972. The application was made by the MPAJ after the Public Works Department (JKR) had handed over the technical report on the landslide to the local authority.
In the incident on Dec 6, 2008, five people were killed and 14 bungalows destroyed at Taman Bukit Mewah, Bukit Antarabangsa, Hulu Klang.
Shaziman, who is also the Member of Parliament for Tampin, said the government had granted the request to make the report public not because it had already been leaked on the internet. He said the government has followed stipulated procedure to declassify the report.
On the leak of the report on the internet, he said the ministry has lodged a police report on Dec 2. "The report has been ready for quite some time and was being kept at the ministry and JKR. However after the report was handed over to the MPAJ, we found the report was widely spread. As such, we decided to lodge a police report because when it was handed over to the MPAJ, it was still under the OSA. So, we must investigate how it could have been spread," he added. -- Bernama
Works Minister Datuk Shaziman Abu Mansor said Saturday Dec 5 the government has approved the MPAJ's request to publicise the report following the decision reached at the Cabinet meeting on Friday.
"The decision was made to ensure that the interest and safety of the people in the area are safeguarded. I hope the MPAJ will not merely disclose the report but also understand and implement the recommendations made to reduce the risk of a recurrence of a similar ilandslide in future," he told reporters after a 'gotong-royong' programme to repair the houses of poor families in Kampung Baru Air Kuning Selatan, near here.
He said on Nov 25, the MPAJ had written a letter to him requesting that the report be declassified under the Official Secrets Act (OSA) 1972. The application was made by the MPAJ after the Public Works Department (JKR) had handed over the technical report on the landslide to the local authority.
In the incident on Dec 6, 2008, five people were killed and 14 bungalows destroyed at Taman Bukit Mewah, Bukit Antarabangsa, Hulu Klang.
Shaziman, who is also the Member of Parliament for Tampin, said the government had granted the request to make the report public not because it had already been leaked on the internet. He said the government has followed stipulated procedure to declassify the report.
On the leak of the report on the internet, he said the ministry has lodged a police report on Dec 2. "The report has been ready for quite some time and was being kept at the ministry and JKR. However after the report was handed over to the MPAJ, we found the report was widely spread. As such, we decided to lodge a police report because when it was handed over to the MPAJ, it was still under the OSA. So, we must investigate how it could have been spread," he added. -- Bernama
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