CAMERON HIGHLANDS: Residents at a low cost medium apartment block here are just waiting for the day when the ceiling or the roof of their respective apartment unit caves in.
In fact, many of the residents had suffered numerous incidents of electric shocks due to severe leaks plaguing the roof of their 22 units located on the top floor of the four storey, LMC Carnation Park apartments located at Jassar Valley in Tanah Rata.
The respective home owners had been this predicament for the past five years.
They adds that there had been no solution forthcoming despite numerous appeals being made to the relevant authorities for the necessary funds to make repairs.
The affected residents claimed that the last the heard of any development regarding their plight was that the Housing and Local Government ministry (KPKT) had allocated RM400,000 in Feb last year for repairs, but nithing materialised after that.
LMC Carnation Park's Joint Management Body (JMB) chairman Mohd Ali Abdullah, 61, said residents on the top floor units could only live comfortably in their respective units for the first five years at the apartments, which now is 15 years old.
“After that, all kind of problems began cropping up, until it culminated with the roof leakage some five years ago. This has became a nightmare for the residents living in the 22 units of the top most floor.
“Now we have already seen four Members of Parliament come and go but our problem is yet to be resolved. We were made to understand that KPKT had approved a RM400,000 for repairs but nothing has been done as of yet.
“We are placing our lives at stake on a daily basis as the level of the roof’s disrepair is quite bad and it (the roof) could collapse at any moment, he told the NSTP.
A apartment unit resident, Hatoon Bibi Mutak Mohamad, 68 said she had spent more than RM5,000 for repairs, however the leaking roof continues to dog her, to the extent that she had exhausted all her monies in making the repairs.
“One of the two rooms is quite badly affected due water damage from rain and cannot be used at all now.
“Despite repeated repairs, the problem continues to plague us. Furniture’s, the bed and sewing machine kept on the room were all damaged,” she said.
Civil servant, Norslizar Nasir, 40, said her elder sister’s unit was also uninhabitable, as all the rooms including the living room and the kitchen would be flooded each time there is heavy rain.
“My sister has to place four or five pails throughout the apartment or it would be flooded.
“Pity her, as well as her husband and their five children, they would have to shift to my apartment located in the next block, each time it rains heavily,” she said.
As such, the residents are hoping that the newly-elected Member of Parliament in the Cameron Highlands by-election would be able resolve their predicament.
