TNB pole in front of her house!

Imagine having an electricity pole right in front of your house entrance! From the picture, it looks like it was planted there in the middle of the night when everyone was asleep...

Apparently, the pole was there for 20 years and it was the gate that was the recent addition. Even so, how could the developer & Tenaga National even approve it in the first place? It's common sense that you just do not plant a pole in front of a house, regardless of whether the house comes with a gate or not.

And the owner has to pay to move it? Life is cruel sometimes.

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TNB pole to be relocated but houseowner must pay fee

JOHOR BARU: The hindrance posed by Tenaga Nasional Bhd’s awkwardly placed electricity transmission pole will no longer bother houseowner M. Sandra soon.

The 43-year-old flower shop worker said two TNB officials visited her home yesterday following The Star’s report of the matter on the same day.

Sandra was taken to the TNB branch at Pasir Gudang.

“They informed me that they would have to charge me a nominal fee,” she said.

Sandra lived with the pole, which obstructed her gate from being fully opened, for two decades.

A single mother with two children, Sandra claimed that the officials told her that it would cost RM10,000 to shift the pole.

However, TNB Pasir Gudang branch manager Mohd Isran Che Mustapha said that there was no record showing that TNB had sought RM10,000 from Sandra.

“There must have been some miscommunication somewhere. The average amount to relocate a pole is only about RM1,500,” he said

When questioned on why the pole was put there in the first place, Mohd Isran said that it was done after receiving approval from the developer and consultant.

“The complainant’s house initially did not have a gate as it is a low-cost housing area,” he said.

“We placed the pole there after getting the relevant approvals,” he said, adding that a contractor would relocate the pole once the price had been agreed upon.- SOURCE