ALOR STAR: The Kedah government will confiscate lands that have been misused as ketum-cultivating plantations to curb the abuse of ketum water among the people in the state.
Mentri Besar Datuk Seri Mukhriz Tun Mahathir said there was a provision in the National Land Code that allowed the state government to seize lands which contravened its conditions, such as farm lands being turned into ketum plantations.
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