The Mother of All Corruption?

It would appear that BIJAN is misusing his power as th PM in this do or die effort to win the Hulu Selangor by election. The action as it appeared in the Star reproduced below certainly went beyond the "I hugged an old lady; sit on a dirty mats to talk and give my best smile to another lady or dirty my hands flipping roti canai" routine in a by election campign. In just one sun up BIJAN resolved the problem of the settlers 15 years waiting.
The Star, Saturday April 24, 2010


BN wins and Sg Buaya Felda settlers benefit


KUALA KUBU BARU: The former Felda Sungai Buaya settlers became the beneficiaries of Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak’s “People First, Performance Now” slogan.
The 363 settlers of the former Felda scheme or their representatives, who were supposed to have received a windfall from a move by a private company to develop the area, were given payments totalling RM18.15mil yesterday.
The settlers have been waiting for 15 years for the project developer to pay them the balance of the money for the sale of the land. Payment however was not made because the project failed.
In 1993, the settlers formed a company, Murna Jaya Sdn Bhd, to handle the land, which was later transferred to a developer to build a new township. In return, the settlers were promised money and shares.
The development however ran into problems, and many settlers did not receive the money and shares.
Of the original 363 settlers, 276 had died.
The surviving 87 settlers, including seven Indians, received RM50,000 each from Idiqa Holding Sdn Bhd yesterday.
Idiqa Holding’s chairman Datuk Abdul Azeez Abdul Rahim, an Umno supreme council member, said his company had acquired the land in question.
A lawyer was engaged to distribute the money to the next-of-kin of the 276 settlers who had died.
Najib said the remaining compensation money would be paid to the settlers at a rate of RM160,000 per acre when the land is developed. A total of 510ha (1,261 acres) is involved.
“The only condition is that Selangor is returned to Barisan to facilitate implementation of the development projects,” he said, during the ceremony at Sungai Buaya.
He said yesterday’s event was important because the settlers had been given a real solution to the long-standing problem.
“The suffering and livelihood pressure all these years ends today,” he said.
Najib said although the settlers were no longer in a Felda scheme, they would still be offered the Islamic insurance scheme for settlers.
“The next-of-kin will receive RM10,000 upon death,” he said.
He said the youth would also be treated like other Felda youth and offered vocational and technical training. “Felda will sponsor them,” he said to the cheers of the youth present.
It was earlier reported that Plus Expressway had pledged to build an RM85mil interchange at Sungai Buaya to connect the development to the North-South Expressway.
The new interchange will cut travel time by 60 to 90 minutes.
Najib said that if Barisan were to be returned to power in Selangor, a Universiti Teknologi Mara campus would be built in Serendah.
http://thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?sec=hulu_selangor&file=%2F2010%2F4%2F24%2Fhulu_selangor%2F6125991
So all thinking Malaysian you can draw your own conclusion. My third side of the coin cannot but argued that if this is not corruption then........