Not being well meaning

 

Mohsin Abdullah, fz.com 

SURELY we can imagine. No not only imagine. In fact, we can feel what the family of Khairul Amir Azri Lani is still going through now. The trauma, pain and sadness due to an incident a week or so ago. July 17 to be exact.

 

On that day, Khairul was in an elevator at Block 8 PPR flats in Desa Tun Razak in Kuala Lumpur. The elevator stopped halfway between the second and third floor. According to reports, 11-year-old Khairul tried to climb out when the elevator suddenly moved, crushing his head against the third floor. He was killed.

 

To an extent we can also “feel the feeling” of the residents of the Desa Tun Razak flats, some of whom were witnesses to the tragedy as they were in the elevator then. Those who did not see it happen knew about it. Nonetheless all were and still are traumatised by the incident.

 

And then we had a minister saying this, a day after the incident: “The unfortunate incident should be a lesson and reminder for all tenants in public housing to pay their rent and maintenance fee.” 

 

The one who said it was Datuk Abdul Rahman Dahlan, minister of Urban Wellbeing, Housing and Local Government. Yes, the same Abdul Rahman who’s getting a lot of “attention” lately for “justifying” and “defending” Datuk Ibrahim Ali’s  “burn the bible” call.

 

Anyway back to the elevator incident. 

 

“The local authorities can only provide maintenance if maintenance fee is collected from tenants. In many incidents, the maintenance fee and sometimes the rent are not paid and this affects the maintenance schedule by the local government. 

 

“We should not point fingers but we cannot compromise in terms of safety and maintenance of public housing projects and it starts (with) the tenants,” said Abdul Rahman, as quoted byfz.comwriter Asrul Hadi Abdullah Sani in his report recently.