SAPP: Revert to original 999-year lease tenure now

By Datuk Liew Teck Chan

Referring to the requests by the Sabah Housing and Real Estate Developers Association to the Sabah State Government to revert the land leases for country leases and town leases to the original 999 tenure, actually, in fact the government can approve land leases for a term of 999 year, especially if the original master title of the land already has a tenure of 999 years. This has been done before without any need for changes to the law. There is no need for any delay because it is only a matter whether the government wants to honour the 999 tenure or not.

Keep promise to extend land title leases!

KOTA KINABALU, June 16, 2011: Sabah Progressive Party (SAPP) is urging the State Barisan Nasional (BN) Government to keep its promise made during the last general election to extend Kolombong land title leases to 99 years from the original 60 years.

Its Treasurer-General, Datuk Wong Yit Ming, said since 2008, the landowners have yet to receive any news about the lease extension from the Government.

Wong, in a statement, claimed that Chief Minister Datuk Seri Musa Aman made the promise to constituents in Kolombong on February 24, 2008 when campaigning for the 12th general election.