PETALING JAYA: Protests against the proposed 100-storey Warisan Merdeka tower has gone online with the "Mega Demonstration on Facebook – 'Say No to Mega Tower' which kicked off yesterday with.
More than 2,000 "online protestors" have confirmed their participation in the cyber-rally, set to go on until Sunday.
But, while the campaign sought to get the 2,228 supporters to change their Facebook profile images on personal sites as well, only a handful have done so.
University student Ram Kumar from Kedah objected to the tower because he felt the government had to get their "priorities right as there is an urgent need to lower the cost of medical, education and housing for the low-income earners”.
Broadcast engineer Fazli Abas, 27, said: “I don’t understand why it’s necessary to build a 100-storey mega tower as there are many buildings in the city’s Golden Triangle, especially the Petronas Twin Towers, (that have) yet to be fully occupied.”
Another university student, Victor Tan, wondered if the profit generated from the project would be able to reach up to three or five times the amount of the RM5 billion investment.
The Facebook campaign “1M Malaysians Reject 100-storey Mega Tower” was created a day after the Budget 2011 announcement and has registered 156,853 approvals at Press time.
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