100 dilapidated houses in Batu Sapi repaired
SANDAKAN: One hundred dilapidated houses in Batu Sapi parliamentary constituency have been repaired under the Touch Point programme of the Sabah Development Office, Implementation Coordination Unit (ICU) of the Prime Minister’s Department.
State Development officer Datuk Ruji Ubi said the owners of the houses, 70 in Sekong state constituency while the rest in Karamunting, were from poor and hardcore poor households registered under the e-Kasih poverty data bank.
He said the repair works, started at the end of last year, through the ‘gotong-royong’ (mutual help) exercises had been fully completed.
A total of 1,200 houses in Sabah are being repaired through the programme and they are now 80 percent completed, he told reporters after visiting a house at Kampung Tronglit in Pulau Timbang near here yesterday.
Also present was Sekong assemblyman Datuk Samsuddin Yahya.
Ruji said the gotong-royong exercises were carried out by the Malaysian Armed Forces, police, National Security Council and Information Department.
Meanwhile, house owner Dalimah Arani, 35, thanked the government for the allocation to repair her house where she lives with her husband and five children.
“Previously, the roof leaked, the walls and floor are also damaged, but we cannot repair them due to financial problems... now my family can live comfortably,” she said.