Have you ever been to the Ulu Klang Recreation Club ? Played football in their well groomed and maintained field or attended a social event at any of the club's function rooms ? I have been there a few times. A truly united and multi-racial Malaysians from this neighborhood mingle freely with one and all, and goes beyond all of the current bullshit slogans like 1this or 1that crap since the Muhibah days of old !Membership is by being a resident in the vicinity and being approved by a committee. A committee that has the community in the Ulu Klang area at heart and are all volunteers. No politics or power in being a committee member here. A Recreation Club sitting on prime land, run by volunteer residents and with no ownership claim by any individual and given to the residents by the then District Officer way back in 1954 !
Until one former Chief Minister decided to "gazette" the club's ownership ( this club was built on state land with a dollar-to-dollar match between the residents and the then 19954 government) and appointed the Local Council to over-see on behalf of the state. He was none other then that weasel and corrupt Javanese dentist turned Chief Minister.
Residents appointed president Andrew Gopal has been madly passionate about the legal status of the club ever since the club was gazetted by that Khir Toyo government and Andrew has held the helm steadily seeking ways to legitimise the status of this club as a "residents" club without interference from the state. Numerous trips and fro the various government departments the residents and Andrew went trying to "de-gazette" the status of the clubs fate. One paper stood by the club, tirelessly reporting all that went on. Yes the Malay Mail has always been championing for justice for UKRC. It has been far too long that the status of this club has been in limbo since the gazette ! Andrew has official documents endorsed in government ledgers to prove that the club was indeed entrusted to the residents of the area by a District Officer back in 1954 and yet no signs of confirmation from the new PKR government that had promised justice for UKRC before the 2008 tsunami !
Andrew tells me that he and the residents attended a "hearing" before some honorable select committee to hear of the "de-gazetting" of the status of the clubhouse and field recently but with a peculiar condition that they are NOT to be assisted by solicitors.(click on image below for
larger view ) Will this committee present it's findings to the now PR Chief Minister Khalid of Selangor for his verdict in giving UKRC back to the residents of UK ? For sure that former "tempe" Toyo tried hard to finger the ownership of the prime land, no ? And with a few MCA "vultures" waiting in the sidelines with personal agendas of monetary gains too, yes ?But for Khalid and all PR, the ball surely is in your court now. Stories of too many 2008 election promises have not been delivered seem to leap out of the closet and if the verdict from MB Khalid's office is not in favour of the residents of Ulu Klang area, the residents will have their day the next time they stroll near a ballot-box !
So listen up all you PR in Selangor, fcuk this up for the residents of UK and PR is fcuked in UK come the GE13 !
**go here for past UKRC news written by my dear Yushaimi Yahaya of the MalayMail.










