Law makes fools of buyers

03/11/2003 The Sun By S.H.Huang, Kuala Lumpur

Scrap the Housing Tribunal! It is a waste of time and gives false hopes to house buyers. The Sale and Purchase Agreement (SPA) clearly spells out that non-delivery on the stipulated date means a penalty for the developer. Why can't the Housing and Local Government Ministry enforce the law?

Why must it help the developer by setting up the Housing Tribunal, then limiting the cases to agreements signed from Dec 1, 2002? The SPA is sufficient. Why bring in the tribunal and complicate a straightforward matter?

I see the ministry as a toothless tiger. It has no bite. It can only talk. Enforce the laws! Otherwise why have laws? To help the developer or the buyer?

Why have laws when the will to enforce them is not there? We might as well have no laws and let the law of the jungle operate if laws are not going to be enforced.

So it is surprising that aggrieved people should take the law into their own hands? A time may come when people will not follow the law; because they being made fools of!