11 new members appointed to DBKL advisory board

ELEVEN new members have been appointed to the Kuala Lumpur City Hall (DBKL) advisory board, who will be tasked with offering city management recommendations to the mayor.

DBKL, in a statement, said the advisors were presented with their letter of appointments on Friday (July 7), for a two-year period effective May 15.

“Under Section 6(1) of the Federal Capital Act 1960, the appointment of the Advisory Board members is by the Yang di-Pertuan Agong, who will act on the advice of the Prime Minister or the mayor.

“The letters were presented to the members by Kuala Lumpur mayor Datuk Kamarulzaman Mat Salleh, replacing the advisors who completed their respective two-year terms.

Appointed to the new board is Datuk Seri Shafei Abdullah, Datuk Seri Izudin Ishak, Datuk Tong Nguen Khoong, Datuk Ismail Ngah, Datuk Afdlin Shauki Aksan, Datin Rashidah Mohd Sies, Dr Abdul Basir V. Kunhimohamed, Lai Chen Heng, Jayakumar R Muniandy, Hayatul Kamil Termudi and Leong Ooi Kuan.

“With the new board members, it completes the 13-member advisory board, together with Datuk Setia Di-Raja Datuk Abdul Ghani Pateh Akhir and Federal Territories Department director-general Datuk Seri Rosida Jaafar,” DBKL added.

A quick check showed that several of the board members are political appointees while the rest have technical backgrounds.

StarMetro had previously reported that there had been some uncertainty on the appointment of the advisory board since there was no longer a Federal Territories Ministry.

The ministry was restructured after the 15th General Election to become the Federal Territories Department, under the purview of Prime Minister Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim.