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KUCHING, Sept 15: Kuching South City Hall (MBKS) has been monitoring the collapsed road stretch along Jalan Kwong Lee Bank (opposite Pasir Puteh Hospital), where the tender for its upgrading work project has started since early August, to be closed on Aug 25.
MBKS Mayor Dato Wee Hong Seng said the council had repaired it in February and July this year. The decision was that after the repair and the issue were solved, MBKS would close the case. Otherwise, it will look into the root cause and solve it for good.
He said it was not the practice of MBKS to award the project directly, and tendering of projects takes time, as reasonable time must be given to interested contractors to evaluate the cost of the project.
Then, there were procedures to follow through even before open tender may be called; among them were the process of consultation and identifying the technical solution, as well the approval by the tender committee and endorsement of MBKS full council.
“If you think that by doing (a) live(stream) to berate, complain, and criticise, all issues can be solved, then I have done 180 episodes (of livestreaming), all issues should have been solved, isn’t it? But no, impossible. Mouth service can only be materialised by real action. Berating and talking about it is not enough.
“And when others are taking action to solve the issue, some individuals just commented—‘that was because I raised the issue, and he (Wee) proceeded to take action.”
“For the person to say that, I find it amusing,” said Wee in a social media livestream without naming the person concerned when inspecting the collapsed stretch along Jalan Kwong Lee Bank this morning.
He said last week that he had told MBKS staff that if the tender process needed another two weeks and the road collapse continued to worsen, MBKS would handle it this week.
“This was a direct instruction before I left for Kuching for a training programme. This was obvious, as all of you could know about it from my Facebook live sessions. This was transparency.
“Don’t abuse my transparency to (use it as material) to produce your show,” said Wee. — DayakDaily
