TRASH continues to pile high daily at an illegal dumping site along Jalan Persiaran Bumi Hijau towards Jalan Tebrau in Johor Baru, Harian Metro reported.
The daily found that individuals were seen continuing to do so despite closed-circuit television cameras having been installed as a deterrent.
Kampung Melayu Pandan residents’ association chairman Mohd Fauzi Mohamad said that despite advice to all residents to stop dumping waste, the practice persists.
“Some use their motorcycles and cars to transport their litter and dump it there.
“There are also outsiders who, especially at night, ride their motorcycles here and simply toss their garbage,” he said.
Fortunately, Mohd Fauzi said the volume of trash at the illegal site has gone down significantly because of a large bin placed at the nearby Jalan Imam.
However, he lamented the inadequate capacity of a single large bin to handle an entire community’s trash.
“I urge the authorities to place three large bins at an open area near the existing bin to accommodate the trash from more than 2,000 residents,” he added.
> Renowned singer Ziana Zain has clarified that she is not a suspect in Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission’s (MACC) Ops Sky probe, Berita Harian reported.
Ziana, 57, said she and the two other celebrities – actor Datuk Jalaluddin Hassan and Datuk Dr Sheikh Muszaphar Shukor Sheikh Mustapha – had only been called in to assist in investigations into a suspected corruption network involving financial consultants and bank officers.
“We were called in to give statements as ambassadors, not suspects. They asked how long we’d known the company and what tasks we performed as ambassadors during the session lasting two to three hours,” she said.
Ziana also refuted claims that the financial consulting firm under MACC investigation had paid her up to RM400,000.
“If I had gotten such a large payment, I would have bought a new Mercedes.
“Sometimes, when the total figures are released, it doesn’t mean we as ambassadors get all of the payment,” she added.
This comes after investigations found that celebrities and artistes, who acted as ambassadors for the firm, had received payments of up to RM400,000 for a period of one to two years.
● The above article is compiled from the vernacular newspapers (Bahasa Malaysia, Chinese and Tamil dailies). As such, stories are grouped according to the respective language/medium. Where a paragraph begins with this ' >'sign, it denotes a separate news item.
