MELAKA: A non-governmental organisation here wants graft busters to probe the case of the two illegal advertising boards that recently collapsed here

"That's the reason we lodged an official complaint to the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) today following the confirmation from a top state government official that these structures had no permits from the local authority," said Chairman of Melaka's Unity Alliance Organisation Mohd Azrudin Md Idris when met outside the Melaka MACC headquarters in Alai here on Wed (July 24).

He added that the state government's agency (Chief Minister Incorporated), which is entrusted to manage and licence such advertising boards in the state, must be held responsible, as well

Mohd Azrudin said the strong wind on July 14 caused the billboards at Bachang to collapse.

He noted that there was also a similar incident on May 24, 2016, where an elderly motorcyclist was killed after a crumbling giant billboard crushed him at a traffic light junction at Pokok Mangga here.

On July 15, Melaka housing, local government, and disaster management committee chairman Datuk Rais Yasin said that the two large structures that collapsed on July 14 had not obtained permits from the local council before they were erected.

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