Thursday October 19, 2006
Klang council swearing-in put off
By WANI MUTHIAH
SHAH ALAM: The swearing-in ceremony for Klang municipal councillors, scheduled to be held today, has been postponed.
Selangor Mentri Besar Datuk Seri Dr Mohd Khir Toyo said the ceremony would be held after the Hari Raya celebration.
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“Maybe some issues have not yet been settled,” he told reporters after the weekly executive committee meeting here yesterday.
Dr Mohd Khir declined to elaborate when asked if the postponement was due to the current controversy surrounding Port Klang state assemblyman Datuk Zakaria Md Deros.
The controversy started when it was revealed that Zakaria had built a palatial four-storey house in Kampung Idaman, Pandamaran, without first getting the approval of the Klang Municipal Council (MPK).
It was also revealed that he had not paid the assessment for another property in the same area for the last 12 years.
There was also public resentment over the appointment of Zakaria’s son and daughter-in-law as MPK municipal councillors together with him.
Dr Mohd Khir said Zakaria was re-appointed as MPK councillor by virtue of his position as the Klang Umno division chief.
“We appoint councillors based on the decision made by the relevant party’s management committee,” he added.
On Zakaria’s various contraventions of the law, Dr Mohd Khir said no one was above the law.
On the non-payment of assessment, he said he wanted the authorities to impose the maximum penalty and Zakaria’s house must be sealed if that was what it would take to settle the issue.
The fine for building it without the local council’s permission would be about RM24,000, he added.
“The maximum penalty is a fine 10 times the amount of the plan fee,” he said. Dr Mohd Khir said MPK had forwarded a report to him, with a copy to the Umno headquarters.
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