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KOTA KINABALU: The Sabah Government is willing to consider a request to return the 999-year lease term, instead of 99 years, pertaining to subdivided titles for house owners and house buyers.
Chief Minister Datuk Seri Musa Aman said the matter would be brought to the Sabah Cabinet for deliberation.
"The views of the people, stakeholders and state leaders will be taken into consideration before a decision is reached on the matter," he told reporters after launching the Kota Kinabalu Torch Run, in conjunction with the 28th National Chinese Cultural Festival at Lintasan Deasoka here last Sunday, Oct 9.
Musa was asked to respond to the request by Sabah Housing and Real Estate Developers Association (Shareda) president and KK Torch Run chairman Datuk Susan Wong Siew Guen in her welcoming speech.
She said, with the 999-year lease term, house owners need not worry that their next generation "may one day lose their houses if they have no money to pay for the extension premium for their houses".
On the recent landmark judgment on the two failed proposed seafront development project off Kampung Tanjung Aru and off Kota Kinabalu that saw the state government winning the RM1.7 billion suit, Musa said he was happy with the outcome.
He said the said land would not be alienated arbitrarily for whatever purposes, including development projects.
"Whatever development proposals to be put in place in these areas must be studied thoroughly," he said, vowing to protect waterfront areas for the good of the people and state," he said.
Earlier, in his speech, Musa thanked Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak for allocating RM100 million each for national-type Chinese and mission schools in the country.
He said this showed the government cared for the people's well-being, irrespective of race, religion and creed.
He said the state government was proud to have been able to provide annual funding to the nine independent Chinese secondary and Chinese medium primary schools in Sabah. — Bernama
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