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LAKE: About RM 150 million is needed for repair works on roads damaged by floods and landslides in the state recently, Sabah Chief Deputy Minister Datuk Seri Bung Moktar Radin said. (pix)
Bung Moktar, who is also the state’s Public Works minister, said the state government would study the matter in terms of financing and seek help from the federal government to repair the roads involved.
“There are roads maintained by dealerships and we will leave them to dealers to repair.
“But the roads that they don’t maintain will be repaired by the Department of Public Works (JKR),” he told reporters after visiting a landslide site in the public parking lot in Taman Kinabalu, Kundasang here today.
Bung Moktar said continued rain is the factor leading to landslides, collapsed bridges and road closures and more than 100 roads were estimated to have been impassable recently.
He said that with JKR’s swift actions to repair and divert roads, only 17 roads are still not passable by all vehicles in the entire state.
Meanwhile, commenting on the landslide in the parking lot, Bung Moktar said that between RM30 and RM40 million is needed to restore the site.
He said that JKR needed to conduct a study that included earth movement to ensure that the earth’s structure is stable so that the landslide does not repeat itself.
“We do not want landslides to occur at the same site after the location has been restored, so comprehensive discussions are needed between government agencies,” he said. -Called
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