Penang Watch

Richard,

You have done a good job for the welfares of residents in your area.

You have portrayed a good photo scenario of risks to the by-passing people, the pedestrians, the commuters and if these factors are still not enough to stir the attention and due action to be taken by MPPP. You should lead a team to Ir Khoo's office for a justified explanation ! This is time the Council should proof their proper diligence instead of going round Penang Road shops and act like thugs!

MPPP, do your job, in the right way, PLS !

Shud report out to the PAlmex office if still nor satisfied report to the necessary officials .

Hi, I'm also the new resident from Regency Ht, about the renovation, I guess there must be some miscommunication? You can call Palmex and check perhaps as I am also engage my own renovator to do it now as agreed so by Palmex.

Based on my experience, the most effective way to stop all the thugs to monopolize the renovation works at your area is to report direct to the CPO and CC to Bukit Aman in case the CPO has neglected your complaint.

The "Samseng" are actually supported by the developer to cari makan there and they are gangster turned contractor and act as middle man to get jobs and sub-contract to the real contractors who will do the job for you! That's why the price is very expensive compare with outside market!

This is a very bad culture ever exist in Penang for long enough and we should take up actions against them! Don't simply trust the normal policemen as some of them are working with the samseng as their godfathers! It happened at Jln. Perak where samseng there used the name of OCPD as their boss !

So go direct to the CPO, he is one we can trust !

In normal practice, any apartment owner who wishes to renovate his unit will have to pay to the management corporation or developer a renovation deposit, which amount varies according to the respective management in-charge. The average tariff of 500.00 is commonly levied for such deposit. And the renovation deposit is refundable subject to the conditions that all debris or remains of building materials will have to be cleared, cart away from the compound / common property; also the renovation contractors must ensure that they do not damage any of the services such as lifts, in particular, or else they will cause the Unit Owner to lose his deposit since the management corp. has the rights to forfeit, use part or whole of d deposit to defray the costs of repair etc.

There is no law specifically mentioned in the SnP agreement for such item and it is merely a common practice, hitheto becomes a common law being applied by most of the Developer and/or Management Corporation. This, in my opinion, is effective way to ensure that the contractors engaged by the unit owners are responsible ones who will take care of the public's property. Failing which they will be fined or penalized!

For the case you mentioned, I think d RM450.00 was a fee charged to undertake clearance of garbage, debris etc. from the site by the "thugs" authorized by the Developer. It happened as well in some other area with particular impression to me that Sg. Ara is among one of the most notorious area for those kind of incidents!

RM450.00 just to cart away debris? How many lorry load of volumn? I do feel that it is rather costly to charge such exorbitant amount!

As the unit owner, you have all the rights to refuse their service and engage your own workers to do the job. The developer has no rights whatsoever to force you into letting his authorized gang to monopolize the renovation works! By doing so, they have violated the laws and you can file a report with the police and they can be charged under the Police Act!

Again, I will advise all those victims who have been harassed by the gangsters to seek help from the CPO, other than report to the police station! Appeal to Bukit Aman if no action is being taken!