They did so after their concerns over the development approval were ignored by Mayor Mohd Azizi Mohd Zain, who was chairing the meeting.
Speaking to FMT, Sean Oon said such a thing had never happened before.
He added that he had pushed for a return to local government elections many times, but had always been turned down.
“I think we need that. If the mayor was voted into the council, do you think he would behave like this?
“Now, he is bulletproof.”
During the incident on Jan 29, Oon and fellow councillor Terence Tan were ejected from the full board meeting on the mayor’s orders.
Another 10 members subsequently decided to walk out of the meeting in protest.
The meeting was said to have convened to decide on a recent one-stop centre ruling which had approved the development plans of landowner KUB Malaysia Bhd.
The councillors reportedly disagreed with the 1:8 plot ratio approved for the site.
Oon said the walk-out also brought to light the issue of the qualifications of those appointed as councillors.
“If you read the Local Government Act 1976, for a person to be selected as a councillor, the person must have certain qualifications. You must be a certain industry captain and must possess value-added skills.
“This, however, is not followed today,” he said.
Oon said he had also proposed that the council publish their CVs on the MBPJ website so that the public could be aware of their credentials.
“I pushed for this many times, but the council outvoted me and said no.
“My question is: why not? Aren’t you proud that you are a councillor? Or are you ashamed that you do not have the right credentials to handle your area and the portfolio assigned to you?”
At present, only MPs and state assemblymen are elected while local councillors, including mayors, are appointed by state governments.
Although local government elections were held in the past, as far back as 1857, they were suspended in the 1960s.
Since then, local governments in Malaysia have not been elected.