KUCHING: Work to improve facilities at the Kota Sentosa Market is in the pipeline until the procurement process is complete before the work begins in February this year.
According to Padawan Municipal Council (MPP) chairman Lo Khere Chiang, in a statement today, the council has always been very responsible in ensuring that all markets under its jurisdiction are kept clean and that the environment is kept conducive for all traders and patrons.
He said this in response to state Democratic Action Party (DAP) chairman Chong Chien Jen’s social media publications about the market maintenance issues.
He added that the council does not always alert the media whenever it responds to each task.
“However, we would like the public to know that Kota Sentosa assemblyman Wilfred Yap and I have been going down to the ground to talk to the traders in the market.
“We have received feedback from them on what to improve at the market, like the fans, the steel cover of the drainage system, and so forth, which had been politicised in YB Chong’s publications,” he noted.
Lo, who is also the Sarawak United People’s Party (SUPP) deputy secretary-general, also stated that Yap have allocated RM400,000 from his rural transformation programme (RTP) funds for the improvement works at the Kota Sentosa Market.
In addition to that, Lo said the council officially received approval of the funds in October last year, and the work is expected to commence in February after the required procurement processes.
“The council is doing everything possible to resolve as many requests as possible on issues facing the community under its jurisdiction.
“But an understanding that some processes require specific procedures to be applied before the physical work can proceed is respectfully required,” Lo stressed.
