Issues on NCR land by propagandists just vote fishing – Awg Tengah

Awang Tengah (third left) presenting NCR land title to a landowner while Rosey (third right), Ripin (right) and others look on. – Sarawak Public Communications Unit (Ukas) photo

MIRI (Dec 1): The incitement and bad propaganda against the Sarawak state government’s new initiative on native customary rights (NCR) programme is seasonal campaigning tactic to fish for votes during the election, Deputy Chief Minister Datuk Amar Awang Tengah Ali Hasan said.

He added such bad propaganda on NCR land was no longer relevant as the state government always recognised the people’s rights to their land as long as the land claim is valid according to the law.

“They (propagandists) are outsiders and just talking only. Landowners who have been swayed by the bad propaganda are those who will suffer the losses because their lands were not surveyed under the new initiative and there is no land title guarantee to their land.

“The landowners will suffer the losses, not them,” he stated in his address when officiating at the presentation of land titles for Lambir area at Kampung Beraya Batu 1 multipurpose hall yesterday.

The Second Minister of Urban Development and Natural Resources reassured that the NCR issue is very close to the state government’s heart.

He reminded that the state government’s efforts in the issuance of land titles through the new initiative, which is NCR Land Survey Programme, will not be successful without the involvement and cooperation of community leaders and landowners.

Thus, he urged the landowners to continue to give their full cooperation to the Land and Survey Department as the implementing agency for the state land policies.

“The perimeter survey on individual lots as well as issuance of land titles under Section 18 of State Land Code are being actively carried out.

“Land and Survey Department has been instructed to focus on this programme throughout the state, including all Bumiputera NCR land.”

Thus far, he said, 47,769 individual lots have been surveyed involving a total of 58,371 hectares of land.

He further said the state government will issue land titles under Section 18 of State Land Code to 18,546 lots.

Later at the same function, he presented 466 land titles under Section 18 of State Land Code to a total of 182 recipients from Rh Ampik, Kampung Nusah and Kampung Sebalik Tiris.

Besides that, he also presented some 270 land titles under the same section to 70 residents from Kampung Beraya area.

Also present were International Trade and Industry, Industrial Terminal and Entrepreneur Development Assistant Minister Datuk Mohd Naroden Majais; Welfare, Community Wellbeing, Women, Family and Childhood Development Assistant Minister Datuk Rosey Yunus; Lambir incumbent Ripin Lamat; Miri Division Land and Survey Department superintendent Anthony Aboi and Miri Resident Abdul Aziz Mohd Yusuf.

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