KUCHING, OCT 9: Kota Sentosa assemblyman Wilfred Yap presented a Minor Rural Project (MRP) grant of RM100,000 to Anglican Bishop of Kuching Datuk Danald Jute to partly assist the Anglican Church in Sarawak compensate the children of the original landowners in consideration of them surrendering and transferring legal ownership of the land on which St Alban’s Chapel and SK St Alban now stand to the Anglican Church in Sarawak.
According to a press release issued by Yap today, in 2017, the Kuching Sessions Court ruled in 2017 that St Alban’s Chapel and SK St Alban under the Anglican Church in Sarawak have an irrevocable licence to occupy the land on which both buildings sit so long as it is used for religious and educational purposes.
“Both the school and chapel were set up in 1961 and in 1970, the Land and Survey Department issued titles for the land on which both buildings sit to Bohen Sulong, Kinchon Sageh, Atok Menyat, and Jenggi Layu,” read the press release.
The grant cheque was handed over at St Alban’s Chapel in Kampung Sungai Tapang here following a Sunday Mass presided over by the Anglican Bishop of Kuching.
“YB Wilfred Yap wants to reassure the public that he shall continue to try his utmost best to solve problems in his constituency of Kota Sentosa based on needs and urgency and strives to be part of the solution (‘people over politics’) regardless of race or religion,” it said. — DayakDaily
