Merotai Iban community wants government to gazette land
TAWAU: Some 400 Iban residents living in a longhouse in Ulu Merotai here have urged the government to gazette some 728ha of land here as a village reserve.
A spokesman for the villagers, William Liang Pilai, said they recently received a notice from the Sabah Forestry Department asking them to vacate the land which they have been occupying for 32 years.