Sebelum ini, Tengku Razaleigh dilaporkan berkata mesyuarat itu bagi membolehkan semua pihak termasuk akar umbi duduk berbincang mengenai sokongan rakyat kepada Umno. By BERNAMA
UMNO Bahagian Gua Musang akan mengadakan satu mesyuarat khasnya pada Jumaat ini khusus bagi meluluskan usul untuk mendesak Majlis Tertinggi Umno bagi mengadakan mesyuarat agung luar biasa (EGM) untuk membincangkan prestasi buruk parti itu pada pilihan raya umum lalu.
Ketua Pemuda Umno Gua Musang, Bazlan Baharuddin, berkata mesyuarat itu akan dipengerusikan Ketua Umno Bahagian Tengku Razaleigh Hamzah bermula 10 pagi di Pejabat Umno Gua Musang di Bukit Cekati di sini.
Sumber memberitahu Bernama bahawa beberapa bekas menteri kabinet dan veteran Umno akan turut hadir pada mesyuarat Jumaat ini.
Sebelum ini, Tengku Razaleigh dilaporkan berkata mesyuarat itu bagi membolehkan semua pihak termasuk akar umbi duduk berbincang mengenai sokongan rakyat kepada Umno.
Beliau juga pernah menyatakan kesediaan untuk bertanding merebut jawatan Presiden Umno pada Perhimpunan Agung Umno penghujung tahun ini.
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saya, terung terang bagi tau,
saya ni skarang berada dalam dilema,
saya orang umno, tapi saya suka pak lah berundur.
tapi yang nak ganti di plak, ku li!
saya tak setuju sgt2.
ku li ni lagi teruk dari pak lah.
zaman tun mahathir dulu dah mcm2 perangai buruk nidia buat. cuba baca buku karangan pak habib, apa yang ku li ni buat. kerjanya sama gak ngan pak lah 'menjahanamkan negara dan orang melayu,
so jatuhkan pak lah saya sokong!
tapi ganti ngan ku li saya tak mau ler.
bak kata pepatah pak lah tu penyamun! ku li ni plak penyangak!
hah dah!penyamun dah kena tipu ngan penyangak!
maka akan jadi spt dialog pilem p ramlee nanti!
risau
Kami risau juga bila membaca angkara kroni di bawah ni hah
Abad Naluri’s dream in Batu Kawan goes awry
It all seems to be going wrong for Patrick Lim.
First, the Penang Global City Centre project has all but been killed off as a result of a concerted campaign by Penang civil society groups.
Then, the Penang state government fell to opposition hands with even the Chief Minister soundly defeated. (The last time someone tried to muck around with a treasured landmark in Penang was in the late 1980s, when Vincent Tan’s Berjaya was eyeing Penang Hill. Perhaps that contributed to then chief minister Lim Chong Eu’s stunning defeat - and a setback for the BN - in the 1990 general election.)
Now, Patrick Lim’s Equine/Abad Naluri has failed to deliver the racecourse it was supposed to build for the Penang Turf Club. In 2004, Abad Naluri entered into an agreement to acquire the Penang Turf Club site in Batu Gantung for RM488 million. It was supposed to build a “state of the art” racecourse in Batu Kawan worth about RM375 million as a replacement and hand it over to the Turf Club by 2007, whereupon the balance of about RM100 million would have been paid in cash to the Penang Turf Club. That clearly has not happened.
Batu Kawan racecourse site
The reality - after five years this is all they have to show
In fact, this is what the Batu Kawan racecourse site looked like when I check it out yesterday. Not a living creature in sight. Wait a minute….
Batu Kawan cows
I looked for horses at the site - but all I could see were… cows!
Actually, Abad Naluri’s racecourse site in Batu Kawan sits on prime land. It is just 0.5km away from the site where the proposed Second Bridge is supposed to land on the mainland:
Second bridge
This is where the Second Penang Bridge will start on the mainland
Now how did Abad Naluri get hold of land so close to the Penang Bridge? Or was it just a happy coincidence?
Apparently, there was a principal agreement for 750 acres of the Batu Kawan land between the Penang Development Corporation and Abad Naluri. This agreement has a life-span of seven years and was entered into in 2004; it includes the pricing and also covers the land for Abad Naluri’s housing projects in Batu Kawan, a source familiar with the deal told me. It would be interesting to find out what kind of pricing is in the Principal Agreement, because the land in the area is now said to be worth RM15-16 per square foot and, if the Bridge project goes ahead, that could well rise further.
Apparently, although the terms for the acquisition of the 300-acre racecourse site have been finalised, the actual Sale and Purchase Agreement between Abad Naluri with the PDC has not been signed. If an S & P has really not been signed - the state government should check on this - then the State should hold back and review its options.
Batu Kawan development
On the other side of the Second Bridge site - Equine/Abad Naluri’s office, show units and more prime land belonging to it.
Abad Naluri’s land in Batu Kawan really could not get much closer to the site of the Second Bridge. How was it able to buy land with the Bridge landing right smack in between its race course and property development sites? At what price?
Penang Turf Club
Meanwhile, back at the ranch…
At the Penang Turf Club, questions are swirling ahead of an AGM on 7 April.
As Abad Naluri has failed to deliver to the new racecourse on time, the principal agreement between Penang Turf Club and Abad Naluri has lapsed. Even as I write this, a source tells me that the Club and Abad Naluri are renegotiating a fresh deal to extend the time frame for handing over the Batu Kawan racecourse by three years.
Lots of other questions are also hanging over the members of the Tuf Club. Has Abad Naluri actually paid the PDC for the Batu Kawan land? How much is due to PDC for the Batu Kawan racecourse land? Has the ownership title been transferred to Abad Naluri?
Have PDC and the state authorities approved the conversion of the Batu Kawan land for use as a racecourse? What about the layout plan conversion? Has the planning permission application even been submitted?
Obviously, there has been little progress on the Batu Kawan racecourse, so there’s no need to ask if architects have certified the progress of building the new racecourse!
I hear the Turf Club was supposed to have set up a project team to audit the progress of the project. If the team has been set up, what are their findings?
Of course, questions are also being raised about the extent to which the proposed - but hopefully aborted - Penang Outer Ring Road project will impact on the Penang Turf Club’s existing site.
If the Turf Club does come up with a new agreement with Abad Naluri, will it take into account the appreciation of the land since 2004 (the agreement valued the land at RM43 psf or RM488 million). But it is now said to be worth at least RM250 psf. Can Abad Naluri afford that?
It looks like Abad Naluri has spent very little so far on both the existing racecourse and the Batu Kawan racecourse site (if it is true it has not paid for that).
More importantly, was there a penalty clause in the Principal Agreement for late handover of the completed new Batu Kawan racecourse?
Turf Club members will surely want to know whether the Turf Club had complained to Abad Naluri about the launch of the PGCC by the Prime Minister Abdullah last year when the land ownership of the PGCC site had not even been handed over to Abad Naluri. What has the Securities Commission got to say?
It should be an interesting AGM to say the least!
For the rest of us, here is a golden opportunity to stop the whole deal in its tracks and work towards the creation of a People’s Park in Penang on the existing Turf Club site.
Here’s what the state government should consider:
* In view of Abad Naluri’s failure to deliver the completed racecourse in time, take back the Batu Kawan land, especially if no S & P has been signed.
* Regazette the Penang Tuf Club’s existing land back to recreational area; so there is no incentive for any other developer to eye that land.
* Offer the Batu Kawan land to the Turf Club in exchange. If the Second Bridge does start there, it is going to be prime land.
* Turn the existing Turf Club land into a People’s Park.
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