Penang Chief Minister Tan Sri Dr Koh Tsu Koon should be shameful in that since taking over the post in 1990, he has done little to complete the Komtar development project .

Komtar may one day be listed in the Guiness Book of Records as the project that take half a century to complete. Launched in the early 1970s, this urban renewal project was meant to showcase Gerakan’s achievement in running Penang.

Although the Tower podium and shopping arcade were completed within the first decade, development of other phases of the project were either sold to private investors or left to rot till today.

Anyone passing through Magazine Road, Maxwell Road and Prangin Market areas would be shocked to see the rotten sides of the Pearl of Penang.

Tsu Koon has an office up in Level 28 in Komtar but he seems oblivious to the state of affairs below his office.

I am not wrong to say Tsu Koon has not add a new piece of brick onto the Komtar project.

Hotel Shangrila, Prangin Mall and the abandoned Metrojaya Complex and the Lion Group projects are all undertaken by the private sectors not the Penang Development Corporation. Infact lands acquired from the rakyat were sold to these private developers. This indeed is a betrayal.

I visited the area yet again yesterday morning and I can only say if Tsu Koon is unable to do anything to Komtar, then let the new Chief Minister complete the project within one term of office.