Tuaran: The Lands and Surveys Department confiscated an excavator and a 10-tonne lorry in a raid on a hill-cutting site in Kampung Bundung, here, last Friday.
KOTA KINABALU: Claims by media portals that Sabah Forest Industries Sdn Bhd (SFI) workers are being evicted by the state government are completely false and without basis, says Sabah Lands and Surveys director Bernard Liew Chau Min.
KOTA KINABALU: The Sabah Lands and Surveys Department says that the 177 land titles handed over recently for federal purposes were those approved before 2016, with most already developed with schools, hospitals and other public facilities.
Its director Bernard Liew Chau Min said this following criticism by Sabah Parti Warisan Wira chief Datuk Azis Jamman, who slammed the Gabungan Rakyat Sabah (GRS) government and questioned the move to give away huge swaths of land.
Liew also clarified that the total acreage of lands involved were 519.44ha and not 1,933ha as reported on Thursday (Feb 18). Land titles handed over on Feb 18 were lands for federal purposes acquired by way of the land acquisition process and lands that were approved before 2016 and premiums were fully paid.
Published on: Saturday, February 20, 2021
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An example of land for a federal purpose that had been gazetted and maintained under the state government is the police station in Tawau. (etawau.com pic)
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KOTA KINABALU: The Sabah Lands and Surveys Department says the state government has only handed over land of slightly over 500ha to federal agencies instead of the almost 2,000ha reported previously.
Its director, Bernard Liew Chau Min, clarified that the department had got the figures mixed up,
FMT reported.
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