Dr M feels ‘lonely in Putrajaya’



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Dr M feels ‘lonely in Putrajaya’
Sunday Star 04/11/2001 By Sa'odah Elian

PUTRAJAYA: Prime Minister Datuk Seri Dr Mahathir Mohamad said it was “lonely” in Putrajaya as very few government servants had moved to the administrative capital although their houses were ready.

“I feel a little lonely here. I hardly have any neighbours and I hope more people will move here so that I will no longer feel lonely.

“I’ve checked with the Election Commission recently and I was told that at the moment there are only 28 registered voters here,” he said when opening the Prime Minister’s Department family day at Wetland Park yesterday.

The Prime Minister was merely making a point.

Dr Mahathir said he was informed that most of the houses have yet to be issued with the Certificates of Fitness by the relevant authority.

He said, thousands of houses and apartment units have been completed, but many remained unoccupied as the owners could not move in until the CFs were issued.

Speaking to reporters later, Dr Mahathir said: “I hope the relevant authority will speed up this process. I don’t understand why it is such a problem to them because I don’t expect them to inspect every single unit.

“In the case of a high-rise unit, they can just check at random, so that it will not take a long time.”

Commenting on another issue, Dr Mahathir said PAS president Datuk Fadzil Noor should be a Malaysian first and a politician last when dealing with issues affecting security of the country and the world following the Sept 11 terrorist attacks on the United States.

“In trying times, he should act as a responsible Malaysian instead of focussing on trivial matters,” he said.

He was commenting on Fadzil’s call for the Malaysian Human Rights Commission chairman Tan Sri Musa Hitam to divorce himself from the fact that he was a former deputy prime minister.

Fadzil made the call after Musa, had said that the Sept 11 attacks had forced nations to put democracy and human rights in the backseat – a remark which some viewed as putting aside the issue of human rights in the country.

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