CS Lee, one of the affected squatters, pointing to an earlier letter from the Federal Land Commissioner giving him notice to vacate the land in Taman Jinjang Baru, Kepong. — LOW BOON TAT/The Star
A GROUP of squatters in Jinjang, Kuala Lumpur, hope they will be offered People’s Housing Programme (PPR) units, after they received a letter ordering them to vacate their current premises by May 7.
The letter, sighted by StarMetro, was issued on April 7 by a legal firm representing a company which had leased the land from Federal Territories Department of the Director General of Lands and Mines (JKPTG).
The letter follows a similar notice from JKPTG in November last year, ordering the squatters to vacate the land, measuring 2.9ha, within 30 days.
The squatters had then requested to be relocated to PPR units.
According to a JKPTG letter dated Aug 15, 2024, the company had leased the land for three years, from Oct 1 last year to Sept 30, 2027, to build a warehouse.
Community activist Yee Poh Ping said the squatters living along Jalan 11/32 in Taman Jinjang Baru should be allocated PPR flats.
“I have handled a lot of cases where squatters have been moved into PPR units.
“There should be enough units to accommodate the 60 families here,” he said when met at the site.
Chan Kum Hoong, who has been living there all his life, urged authorities to be sympathetic to their plight.
“We should be offered PPR units,” he said.
Yee said excavators had started digging, leading to concerns of flooding among the squatters.
“A lot of construction materials have also been brought in,” he added.
StarMetro reached out to JKPTG and Kuala Lumpur City Hall for comments, but had not received a response at press time.
