Pro-Anwar group lodges report against exco for degazetting KLNFR land

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PETALING JAYA: A pro-Anwar Ibrahim group has lodged a police report against 10 Selangor executive council members for degazetting 536.7ha from the Kuala Langat North Forest Reserve (KLNFR) for development.

Otai Reformis said it also wants police to investigate the exco members over allegations the land was offered to developers at RM3 per sq ft, which it said was well below the market price.

Otai Reformis secretary Abdul Razak Ismail said the market value of land in Cyberjaya, located just 500m from the forest reserve on the other side of the Elite Highway, was RM110 per sq ft.

He said that following the police report against the exco members lodged at the Seksyen 6 police station in Shah Alam yesterday, the group plans to make a report to the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission, pending the completion of certain documents.

Selangor environment committee chairman Hee Loy Sian had revealed earlier that the state government had agreed in May to degazette 536.7ha of the KLNFR land to be used for mixed development, a decision that has been widely criticised since.

Environmental NGOs and the Orang Asli community have demanded that the degazettement be cancelled.

In the wake of the backlash, menteri besar Amirudin Shari said the exco would review the decision at its meeting on Wednesday.

Source: FMT