RAHMAN DAHLAN TAHUKAH PERKARA INI?

PAKATAN Rakyat visiting team led by the Sabah DAP KK MP Hiew King Cheu, the PAS Sabah State commissioner Mohamad Animuddin Aling together with Ag Laiman Bin Tkin, Stephen Yarman and other members visited the KB Central Market during their rounds in the Kota Belud town area today.

They were surprised by the thousands of swallows nesting in the ceiling of the market, and spreading droplets (bird shit) all over the hawker stalls and fish monger stalls.

The people here had suffered long enough and the condition became unbearable both to the hawkers, fish mongers, and their customers. The swallow droplet is very disturbing and annoying to the people here when ever they are 'hit' by the 'bomb' from above. This is especially so when their goods are being splashed with bird shit. They worry is these bird droplets carry diseases and virus. The fish and meat could be contaminated.

The people here have to use cardboard, plywood, umbrella and plastic sheet to cover the stalls, on the vegetables, meat, fishes and to protect themselves. There are thick bird shit seen everyway and some of the stalls were badly splashed with the dirty bird shit which can not be use anymore.

The people had complained many times but there is no action taken by the town council. The KK MP Hiew immediately called the District Officer of Kota Belud over the phone, and he was told that the DO would bring this matter up during the meeting.

It is not reasonable that this matter was not dealt with much earlier on, but why wait until the KK MP Hiew called, then the town council will discuss about this pressing issue. The DO obviously did not see what is happening in the market here and let alone the YBs of the BN. The people said they hardly see their YBs come to the market.

There are many other items in the market needed to be made good specially the hawkers stalls, and in the fish market, the floor, the benches, the leaking water tank and lack of water pipe in the centre tables. There is some missing drain gratings outside the markets with big holes wide opened.

All the walls are splashed with plenty of bird shit and this looks really ugly and filthy. The hawkers lost much business and income due to the dirty stage of the market, and many people had refused to come here to buy their food starves.

MP Hiew wants the KB town council to immediately come to clean up the market of all the bird shit and get rid of the swallow. There is a lot of cleaning job to do and he expects the town council can mobilize to give the market a scrub down. He promised the hawkers that he will come back to check in two weeks time.Sabahkini.