Husam Musa stands out again as a good example what a government backbencher should be doing - being the 'check and balance'..highlighting wrongdoings of the government irrespective of the fact it is his own party that is the government.
Husam queries Kelantan’s weak illegal logging enforcement
Salor assemblyperson Husam Musa has questioned the PAS-led Kelantan
government for its weak enforcement in dealing with illegal logging
activities in the state.
Husam, who formerly chaired the state
economic planning, finance and welfare committee, said the Kelantan
Forestry Department must act early because it had officers who were
assigned to ensure that its forests would not be encroached.
"The
department has its own foresters stationed in the forest. If people have
stolen up to 20,000 acres, these officers should be aware of it much
earlier than that.
"If
secret passage was the excuse they have given, no matter how secret the
passage is, someone would have noticed, whether the they cleared were
5,000 acres or 20,000 acres," Husam (photo) told a press conference in Kota Baru yesterday.
Previously,
the department's director Zahari Ibrahim was reported as saying more
than 400 hectares (988.42 acres) of Ulu Galas and Batu Papan Forest
Reserves in Gua Musang had been illegally exploited by syndicates.
These
syndicates used the names of the Sultan of Kelantan and members of his
royal families to trick people into buying the land, which they claimed
would be turned into rubber and oil palm plantations, as well as banana
farms.
Husam, who was also a former PAS vice-president, claimed
that logging activities in Kelantan were not the normal logging
activities where trees that were still relatively young and did not meet
the right specifications were also cut.
"What happens in Kelantan
is a total cutting down of trees solely for commercial purposes. In
fact, it is among the most rampant in peninsular Malaysia now," he said.
- Bernama - Malaysiakini, 2/5/2016
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