Fire victims receive RM500 assistance each from APM
KAPIT: Thirty- nine families of Rumah Lorie at Nanga Ibau, which was burnt down on April 21 received RM500 each, courtesy of Civil Defence Force (APM).
Chairman of Kapit District Disaster Management Committee, Elvis Didit, who is also Kapit District Officer, presented the cash assistance to each head of the family at the APM premises in Bletih State Complex here.
APM Kapit officer Johny Jamit, staff Rosalinds Banyang, Yenny Donny, Ismadi Yussof and Mohd Bakri, SAO Mohd Shukri and APM officer from Kuching Nuruluikmah Abu Samah were among those present.
It is understood that the longhouse folk had met to discuss rebuilding a new longhouse across the river. In the meantime they have erected temporary shelter at the former site while waiting for a new longhouse to be built.
Their decision to relocate to a new site, not far from the KapitSong road, is for easy access to the outside world.
The headman thanked the department (APM) for the cash assistance, and also others who have chipped in one way or the other, among them Kapit MP Datuk Alexander Nanta Linggi, Bukit Goram assemblyman Jefferson Jamit Unyat, Welfare Dept, MRC Kapit, Lions Club Kapit, and Methodist Hock Ing Church Kapit.