Restaurant owner Muthusamy Thirumeni said Teng’s silence on the matter proved that he had something to hide.
“Following Teng’s silence, we are now giving him another seven days to respond to another inquiry,” Muthusamy told FMT when met at the restaurant located along Persiaran Rajawali in Taman Berkeley here.
On Sept 12, Berkeley Corner had demanded Teng to provide proof on the claims that he had made regarding the restaurant and its location.
Teng had claimed that the reason for evicting the restaurant was because it was situated within the neighbouring highway’s buffer zone and also because the state government needed to use the land to build a second retention pond to address flooding issues the residents were facing.
Berkeley Corner had then given Teng 72 hours to respond.
Muthusamy said if Teng did not respond within seven days from today, the restaurant would make public additional documents that would show the latter’s involvement in the move to evict them.
The restaurant said a document dated 2012 showed that the Klang local council was in the midst of granting a temporary occupational licence to the restaurant for another three years.
The document details the topics discussed during a local council meeting.
“We want Teng to tell us why the offer to lease the land was never given to us,” Muthusamy said.
When asked why he believed that Teng was directly involved, Muthusamy said it was because Teng was the exco member in charge at the time.
He said the document also proved that the land had not been reserved as a highway buffer zone as Teng had previously claimed.
“We want to know what he is hiding and why is there such over-zealousness in trying to get rid of us.”
FMT’s attempts to contact Teng for a response were unsuccessful.