The government will spend about RM92 million to improve the flash flood mitigation system in Kuala Lumpur, The Star reported. This comes after thousands were affected by flash floods in the capital on May 12.
The funds will be used to replace old pipes, install water pumps as well as build retention ponds and road diversions, according to Federal Territories deputy minister Datuk Dr J. Loga Bala Mohan. “This includes RM5 million for an integrated traffic management system to better handle the traffic during flash floods,” he said, answering a question by Lembah Pantai MP Nurul Izzah Anwar in parliament.
The deputy FT minister said the May 12 flood was due to “extraordinary rainfall which lasted for two hours” beginning at about 6.45pm. “A total of 106.5 mm of rainfall was recorded in those hours when the usual is 70 mm. The drains were unable to handle that volume of water,” he explained.
Meanwhile, Loga said that Kuala Lumpur City Hall (DBKL) will not compensate the 105 owners whose vehicles were damaged in the flash flood as it was not responsible for losses suffered due to “an act of god”. This is consistent with the KL mayor’s view. “No, we won’t cover it unless they had included extended coverage in their insurance. Otherwise, no,” Datuk Seri Amin Nordin Abdul Aziz was quoted as saying last week. Want to sue DBKL? A lawyer says that you can, but one must have plenty of patience and money.
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Open tender please!
No need. Just gip to CZBUCG or Magnificent Emb… oh wai…
92 Million Ringgit of the tax payer money will be spent.
Then the next down pour… it will be flooded once again. THe minister will once again come out saying its God’s will, its the dry leaves fault, etc etc…
Another 100 Million ringgit project will be implemented.
Rinse and repeat.
good job BN… at least RM92m out of the RM2.6b is put back for development!
Typical Government. Your DBKL officers are all relaxing in the stalls and chilling out minum teh and chit chatting. They are not sweeping at all. All the leaves all clog the drains.
DBKL find easy way out and blame rubbish. And they tell the 105 cars that got flooded that it is Act of God.
Go and see what your DBKL officers are doing. Whether it is the sweeper or the white collar DBKL officer, he is 90% of the time chilling and relaxing and doing some side business ie makan suap from the stall owners.
We all know where the 92 million will go . The floods will keep happening and the flood control systems will keep being “updated” year after year.
World temperature has increased by 1°C. Enough to melt glaciers by several percentage. Due to that reason, sea level has increased. Some part of world is missing, especially the beaches. And the rain gets heavier compare to 15 yrs ago. KL is a valley. It will be difficult to prevent flood. When it rains the road surface and concrete buildings make it impossible for water to sip through the soil.
hence the ‘kuala Lumpur’..
Do you see other country main city flood even in valley? Find a way, not a excuse.
find a solution, don’t talk kok only.
If that RM 1.8 bil Smart Tunnel also cannot stop the flood, what dent can RM92mil make?
It will only make a few selected rich and buy Bentley and Ferrari for their kids.
To sum it, while the cronies enjoy their fruits, the rakyat will still have to endure flood. Act of god.
ST has magnificently stopped flooding in central KL. Its the outskirts which is flood prone now.
First of all I’m not a lawyer, but to mention this incident was not because of the local council’s fault and brushing it aside as an act of god. Come on you have to be joking. Then answer this;
1) Who or what department is in charge of drainage planing?
2) Are there any standard requirements for drainage discharge?
We are in a tropical season country and heavy rain is a norm. Please enlighten all of us by what definition does it fit to be classified as an act of god. It is unforeseeable but humans can do something to avoid such incident and by doing not to requirement its call negligence.
If they use RM10 notes from the RM92 million to absorb all the flood water, it would be probably more effective than opening the project tender to any ‘contractor’. Cukur lah
Rubbish talk always.no such amt needed to prevent floods in kl.v only need desperately that competent and honest people would be in govt then automatically these issues would b wipe off
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Hahaha…this is a brilliant statement by our G to avoid from being responsible to the ‘105 flash flood victims’.
yeay!!!pocket money for cronies
when moron voted for moron to take charge, here comes the moron statement…
The actual cost does not exceed rm10m if they does not feed the pakcik2 boroi
Dickhead,
Heavy rain is act of God.
Flood is because “no-act(ion)” from DBKL.
2 different things.
still there WILL be flooding
do you know how dbkl spend this 92million to improve system? they just hire 500cleaners!
And then it will be flooded again because of lack of maintenance. But hey yeah Bangla is still cheap to hire.
So it seems the reason why people wanted to sue DBKL was because cables were laid temporary inside drainage pipes in that area.
problem sudah jadi, baru cakap nak buat ni, nak buat tu, improve ni tu lah… blah blah blah…
Hari biasa tak ada buat maintenance ke atau inspection?
Semua salah Tuhan! Bagus punya alasan!
looks like the mega-buck spent on so-called Smart Tunnel is just wasted. Flooding still happening in KL
DBKL must be full of useless makan-gaji-buta retards….