The Construction Of Batang Seterap Bridge - Snowdan Lawan Needs to Explain to the People Of Pantu the Progress of the Project

26th April 2009 - Snowdan Lawan made An announcement on the Construction of the bridge Crossing Batang Seterap. What happened to the Project ?

On 26 April 2009 during the closing of Pesta Tapah Pantu, Snowdan Lawan the Assemblyman for N25 Balai Ringin made an announcement to The 10,000 people of Pantu that a long-awaited bridge over Batang Seterap, which would connect Pantu to several villages across the river, is expected to be built this year.
The said assemblyman was reported saying that the allocation of RM19.5 million had been approved :-
“For the people of Pantu, after waiting so long since the bridge project was proposed, discussed and raised at the Dewan Undangan Negeri (DUN) sitting, I am pleased to announce that the government, out of its concern and commitment towards rural infrastructure development, has approved the project.The tender for the project should be open in the middle of this year and the bridge is expected to be completed next year,” he said.
But today, after more than 7 month the announcement was made, my personal visit to Pengkalan Pantu, I did not see that the construction is going to start within this year or near future. What happened to the project? Was it just a rethoric to merrier the closing ceremony of Pesta Tapah ?
Snowdan Lawan need to explain to the 10,000 people of pantu or risk losing their supports.

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Parti Keadilan Rakyat (PKR) N25 Balai Ringin MUST MOBILIZE NOW!

Brainstorm and Discussion in Progress

Last Sarawak State Assembly election was held in May 2006 therefore the next election will be held between 12 to 18 months from now. Surprisingly the PKR N-25 Balai Ringin Branch has not yet mobilize. My chit-chat with one of the active member from N25 branch during the Membership Recruitment Retention Worshop held at Grand Continental Hotel Kuching yesterday, 15th August 2009, there are three members that lobbying themselves to become a candidate for PKR N-25. One of them is Sarawak Women Chief and the other two are the new members who are unknown to Bukit Tunggal.

Being the head of PKR N-25 Balai Ringin branch, it no doubt that Cubbold is the most suitable person to become PKR candidate in N 25. Eventhough Ibie is PKR women head at state level but she is not from Balai Ringin constituency. Beside being the local, Cubbold is very well known in Balai Ringin and has been actively operating there for the past 10 years. I am not instigating any misunderstanding between those who had offered themselves as candidate for N25, but would like to urge everyone to concentrate on membership drive in our branch. During the workshop, I had a chit-chat with some active members from MAS GADING and SARATOK, and was surprised to find out that both of the branches were ready to face the election at any time, which was very contrary to our branch....But probably N25 are operating secretively knowing that BN through all of their village chiefs has been monitored PKR activities in Balai Ringin. Even Bukit Tunggal himself has been marked as a traitor by some of the village heads along Simpang Ubah area... Whether we operated secretively, as the State Assembly election is just around the corner we have no time to hide ourself and we must MOBILIZE NOW or risk losing the opportunity to wrest N25 from BN candidate.

Participant from MAS GADING.....

The workshop that I attended was very informative and useful. It was sponsored by a NGO that operates in over 72 countries worldwide. It main aim is to promote democracy especially in the third world like Malaysia. It started at 9.00am with lecturing and discussion and end-up with group discussion and presentation after lunch. For the group discussion, it was broke into three groups according to the areas of election such as , the Urban, semi-urban and the rural. The workshop was very useful especially to PKR Sarawak. It can be a great help for every branches (cabang) to achieve atleast 3000 membership drive as proposed by Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim. As for the PKR members in N25 especially its protem Committee, who is also my friend from the Dayak Nation....we have no other alternative. If we want to kick SNOWDAN LAWAN and BN out of N25 we must START MOBILIZE now. Mupok Aku

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