KOTA KINABALU: Nostalgic Penampang folk and history buffs will be relieved to know that the century-old rain trees in Kasigui, Penampang, about 10km from here, will not be chopped down as initially planned.
There was a campaign last December to stop a road expansion project from steamrolling over a little colonial-era trading post in Kasigui where there is a small marketplace, a coffeeshop and the five rain trees estimated to be between 80 and 100 years old.
“I was told during the meeting this morning that the department’s current road widening plans will not involve the cutting down of the five rain trees,” he told reporters yesterday. District JKR engineer Nelliah Sitor was quoted by local paper the Daily Express yesterday as saying that the road expansion project was well underway but that the rain trees would be left untouched due to strong public objections.
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