RM200 mln to upgrade 10th Battalion GOF Lanang Camp
SIBU: An allocation of RM200 million has been set aside under Budget 2017 to upgrade the decades-old 10th Battalion General Operations Force (GOF) camp at Lanang here, said Deputy Home Minister Masir Kujat.
The budget, among others, would include rewiring and changing the piping system as the camp was built in 1964 and building more
The allocation will be spread out under the third and fourth rolling plans under the 11th Malaysia Plan. Masir Kujat, Deputy Home Minister
barracks and quarters.
“The allocation will be spread out under the third and fourth rolling plans under the 11th Malaysia Plan,” Masir told a press conference after visiting Lanang Camp yesterday.
While there, he visited the site of the gutted barracks, accompanied by Sarawak GOF deputy commander ACP Zulkifli Jonit and Lanang Camp commanding officer superintendent Hasnan Karim.
On Nov 5, a fire level led a wooden block of barracks at the camp. Nine of the 10 units were destroyed, leaving 37 people from seven GOF families homeless.
Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak recently approved RM20 million for the proposed construction of a new 60- unit quarters at the camp.
That allocation was announced by Deputy Prime Minister Datuk Seri Dr Ahmad Zahid Hamidi during a function to mark the commencement of the project in early May this year.