“The NGOs, the residents and I had continuously and vehemently objected to the many hillslope developments but we had been brushed aside as ‘rebels’. Mohamed Idris said “every single Penangites is living through the mega floods”. “Don’t pretend that all these did not contribute the mega floods. “Secondly, the stage must also set up a special unit to monitor all the hillslope developments,” he said. Idris also said the Federal government must allocate emergency funds for the mega floods to tackle the issue once and for all.

Source: New Strait Times November 05, 2017 09:45 UTC