Vandals leave their mark

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A PARTLY completed Senior Citizens Association building in Kampung Baru Kundang has been vandalised.

Graffiti in the form of heart shapes with the numeral ‘1’ in the centre have been sprayed in red paint on the building’s white walls.

It is believed that the vandalism is the act of rival gangs fighting over territory.

Kampung Baru Kundang Village Development and Security Committee (JKKK) chairman Wong Seng Fock said an old car parked some 20 metres from the building, a banner, a bus-stop and even the road were not spared either.

Sickening sight: The Senior Citizens Association building sprayed with red paint

“We had just spent a large sum of money on painting the building and now this has happened.

“If the culprits want to spray red paint, they should spray it on their houses, vehicles and anything else they own — not on public or private property that does not belong to them.

“The Kampung Baru Kundang residents had collected money to put up this building and we were supposed to have an opening ceremony next month, but now we will have to appeal more donations from the villagers or even the Selayang Municipal Council (MPS).

“I hope the culprits will be nabbed.

Not spared: Even this bus stop in Jalan Sri Kundang has not been spared.

“It will take three or four coats of paint to cover the red spray and we would have to incur higher costs,” he said.

When asked about the gang issue, Selayang MP William Leong, who was at a Hari Raya open house in Kundang recently, said a gang member had been slashed recently and the graffiti was a warning to rival gang members not to set foot in the area.

“We have reported this matter to the police,” he said.