商官勾結 害慘人民

Collusion between the Officials and the businessmen harmed the people badly

The owners of the Miri high street commercial shop reflected to The DAP Miri branch chairman PT Fong, at present, the expenses for the reconstruction fees of the high street commercial shophouses reached 180 thousand are unreasonable. In fact, basically those shophouses do not need to be reconstructed, minor changed the lignin floors into the cement floors will do, as for the roofs, made a firewall to separate them from the shophouses next door will do. Pay for an extra of ten over thousand for no reasons.

PT Fong asked that owner further why did he agree to reconstruct initially, the owner expressed that if they did not agree to do so, their land title could not be renewed, therefore, they just allowed themselves to be trampled upon! PT Fong expressed, in the society of the domineering corrupt officials and the collusion between the officials and the businessmen, some people therefore turned very rich, take “Datuk”, the common people are the one who pay deeply for the grieved price.

According to the owners, their shop was just like a bird nest, once you spoilt it and even then after all if made a new bird nest back, the original bird who lived there would not fly back again. The similar situation also occurred on the old customers, due to the reconstruction, when they had traded for new patrons, new stores, it was very difficult to lead them back. It caused the merchants suffered further from great misfortune, the owners often were asked for the reduction of the rental.

At present, the chamber of commerce are catching up with the construction of the stalls on the high street sidewalk, how many old customers can be attracted back is also a queries of many merchants, if those stall keepers are not properly arranged, it could be a possibility that the present merchants are even more difficult to thrive in business.

美里大街某業主向民主行動黨美里支部主席房保德的反映，目前大街正在重建的店屋建築費高達18萬令吉不合理。而且事實上那些店屋基本上是不需要重建的，只要把木質樓板換成洋灰樓板，而屋頂方面再做防火門牆跟隔壁的店屋隔開便行。平白多付了十幾萬令吉。

房保德進一步問那業主為何當初他要答應重建，業主則表示如果不答應重建的話，他們的地契便不能獲得更新，只好任人宰割！房保德則表示，在這個貪官污吏横流和商官勾結的社會裡，有人因此發大財、拿“拿督”，平民百姓則付出慘痛的代價。

某業主跟房保德反映說，他們的店屋就好比一個鳥巢你把它弄壞了再做一個新的回去，即使做了一個新的鳥巢，那原本住在那的鳥也不會再飛回來了。同樣的情形也發生在老顧客的身上，因為重建的關係，當他們換了新的顧主，就很難再使他們到回頭了。使原本己經面對生意下跌的商家更是雪上加霜，業主往往要降低租金來求租。

商會目前在大街人行道上趕建的攤位究竟會吸引多少的老顧客回頭也受到商家們的質疑，如果那些攤販不妥善的安排的話，很有可能讓現在商家生意越來越難做。