Review also Pantai Manis project: PBS
Thursday, 10 November 2005 (Source: Daily Express)

KOTA KINABALU: The Papar District Council has been urged to review another joint-venture project it had entered into with a private company to develop Pantai Manis, since it has failed to take off for several years now.

Parti Bersatu Sabah (PBS) supreme council member, Johnny Mositun, said the Council should decide whether to proceed or discontinue with the proposed project.

He said the Council also needs to look into the proposed building of international tourism facilities in Pantai Manis because the delay in its implementation was depriving the people from utilising the popular beach, which is famous not only in Sabah but in Malaysia.

"The beach has been a 'No Trespassing' zone for the public since the MoU was signed," he said.

"We also support Pantai Manis Assemblyman Datuk Abdul Rahim Ismail's call to the Council to review the project that will see the historic football field and the Dewan Salleh Sulong making way for more shophouses," he said in a statement here Wednesday.

Mositun said at least four schools were using the field to hold their annual sports events and even if an alternative field were built it would not be suitable.

"Even during the PBS Government, in its proposed development plan for Papar town, the field was left untouched," he said, adding that perhaps the local authority should instead consider upgrading facilities at the field and find another site to build the shoplots.

Mositun, who is PBS Pantai Manis, chief also proposed that the council look into the possibility of centralising the food stalls in the town on the upper floor of the new market in Papar.

In turn, he proposed that the vacated food stalls be then handed to the cloth vendors to do their business.

"This would make the stalls more proper and systematic," he said.