All Putrajaya buildings have
CFs, says Samsudin
16/04/2007 NST
PUTRAJAYA: All buildings here were issued certificates of fitness (CFs),
contrary to claims that some government departments moved in before they
were issued.
Tan Sri Samsudin Osman, president of the city’s local authority, Putrajaya
Corporation, said yesterday the buildings would not be occupied if a CF had
not been issued.
He said, however, when some clients were eager to move in quickly, temporary
certificates of fitness (TCFs) were issued.
"(TCFs were issued) only if there were non-critical areas that were not yet
ready and so long as work to repair those items was undertaken."
One example was when the Immigration Department moved here in 2004.
"Back then, a few buildings were issued TCFs but we ensured that they
completed all the critical repairs before the proper CFs were issued."
He was commenting on claims by sources in various government agencies and
the Fire and Rescue Department that some buildings in the administrative
capital did not have CFs.
These claims arose following two recent incidents here — the landslide on
March 22 in Precinct 9, leading to the evacuation of more than 1,000
residents of government apartments, and last Wednesday’s flooding of the
Immigration Department headquarters because of a burst pipe.
Prime Minister Datuk Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi had expressed shock and
disappointment that both incidents could have taken place in a well-planned
city like Putrajaya.
Samsudin said it was pointless to get into a "blame game" over the
Immigration building incident. "It’s counterproductive to blame this or that
person because many parties are involved in the construction of a building
and in issuing CFs. It is never just one party." |