THE Sri Selangor flats in Jalan San Peng are famous for all the wrong reasons and, over the past few years, another reason has been added to the list of notoriety.
Every year during the Hari Raya celebrations, the atmosphere at the six blocks of flats would be filled with an unbearable stench.
Sorry sight: Visitors are greeted by the sight of garbage left in the lift lobbies instead of the proper dumping site on the ground floor. During this period, many residents exchange their furniture and curtains for new ones, leaving the old furniture outside their homes.
Residents also collect their rubbish and place it in front of the elevators.
Troubled resident M. Vani, 50, complained that the uncollected rubbish would cause health problems.
Stolen: Some of the cables have been ripped out by addicts hoping to make a quick buck. “The residents are getting lazy. Instead of carrying their garbage down to the collection area, they leave it to rot upstairs,” she said.
Vani added that the task of carrying the rubbish downstairs was not too difficult as residents could easily use the elevators.
As one steps out of the elevators, the smell of decomposing vegetables and meat is immediately apparent and the floor is sodden with water seeping from the rubbish pile.
On the ground floor, rubbish can be seen splattered on the floor at the open hallway as people throw down garbage from the upper floors.
According Habeebah Abdullah, 55, sweepers often find broken bottles on the ground floor posing a threat to them and also to the children playing in the area.
“The other day when I stepped into the lift, there were two bags of garbage left to rot in there. It was disgusting,” she added.
Well-equipped: The flats have a place for residents to dump their garbage but many do not seem to want to take the effort to do so. All six blocks in the area are suffer the same fate. When some of the residents ask the cleaners to clean up the garbage, they say they are short-handed.
“There are only four workers for the six blocks and, as there are 16 floors to clean, it is not an easy task,” Vani added.
Vani feels that the Kuala Lumpur City Hall (DBKL) should hire more cleaners from different backgrounds so that work would not be disrupted during the holiday seasons.
She added that DBKL should make regular checks at the flats to ensure the residents would not get out of hand.
“There are also empty units that are being used by addicts as their den and those are also dirty and smelly,” she said.
Habeebah added that some of the addicts would use the corridors and airwells as latrines and they had to coax the sweepers to help clean the place.
Several cables have also been pulled out of the sockets by the addicts who steal the wires to earn extra cash.
Vani said the DBKL should consider collecting RM10 each from the 160 families residing in each block every month to help pay the cleaners.
“They can use the extra money to hire more cleaners which will benefit our community better,” she added.
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