Missing slabs: DBKK to step up efforts

Kota Kinabalu: City Hall (DBKK) will step up efforts to maintain the drains, including concrete slabs, around the State Capital, after a pedestrian fell into one in Kolombong.Daily Express had notified City Hall about some of the slabs placed over the structure having gone missing six months earlier. Failure to act resulted in a member of the public getting hurt.

A City Hall spokesman apologised for the delay in repairing the concrete slabs but failed to explain why it took that long.

"Our staff have been instructed to be more proactive in attending to such irregularities in future," he said.

"An inspection was carried out of the drains as soon as we were made aware of what happened to the pedestrian.

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"Our personnel confirmed that these structures were under our jurisdiction."

He said the missing concrete slabs were replaced and repairs were carried out on the drain a week later.

The spokesman said maintenance was carried out on the drains as and when it became necessary to do so.

A Daily Express reader said the exposed sections of a covered drain along the road fronting a Kolombong commercial centre were hazardous to pedestrians.

She said she managed to avoid the "holes" in the drain but had not realised that some of the concrete slabs were loose.

"One of them turned over when I stepped on it causing me to fall into the water in the drain," she said, adding that the liquid came up to her knee.

"After I got over the shock, I pulled myself out and made my way slowly to a supermarket along the road."

There she bought herself a cheap pair of jeans as the ones that she was wearing were wet and torn.

"While changing, I realised that my left leg and elbow were bleeding.

"I washed off the blood and walked over to the main road to catch a bus home."

When she woke up the next day, she said she found that she had also injured her abdomen.

"I found it difficult to lift my upper body as the area around one side of my rib cage was painful."

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She felt that these injuries could have been avoided if DBKK had been diligent in maintaining the concrete slabs on the five-foot way.

She said some of the shop operators near the pavement had lodged complaints with City Hall about the missing concrete slabs but their efforts had proven in vain.

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