Sipitang; masih banyak penduduk Sipitang yang belum pernah mendapat kemudahan air paip sejak merdeka lagi. Contohnya, 4 kilometers radius luar dari pekan Sipitang.
Yang menghairankan paip-paip air ini nampak dipinggir-pinggir jalan, kadang-kadang dicat baru, diganti dan diperbaiki. Apalah gunanya membazir wang, sadangkan air dalam paip tidak ada, maksudnya paip tersebut tidak pernahpun berisi air.
Bagi pandangan orang biasa, orang-orang yang mendapat hasil membaiki paip-piap ini ialah kontraktor-kontraktor pilihan.
Sipitang; Those live in kampongs beyond 4 or so kilometers radius from Sipitang town have yet to rely on rainwater, wells or even rivers.
One just imagines how the rivers in Sabah look like during rainy season, milky and muddy –celebration time for crocodiles, and in contrast look at again during dry season like this month (February)!
It really is an eye sore to see pipes lying around in kampongs, look very normal, manned, painted nicely and even replaced regularly.
We don’t see any logic, why spending public money mending those pipes when kampong folks never benefit from it, contractors are? Perhaps one cares to check who are the contractors?
Water supply by pipe to household is people’s basic need; it should have been taken as priority by whoever is managing the constituency.
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