His Majesty presents land lots and house keys to recipients

His Majesty Sultan Haji Hassanal Bolkiah Muizzaddien Waddaulah, the Sultan and Yang DiPertuan of Brunei Darussalam, Wednesday consented to present land lots and house keys to 299 recipients. The land lots recipients are the successful applicants under the Kampung Lambak Kanan and Kampung Rimba National Housing Scheme. The recipients of the house keys are for the Kampung Rimba National Housing Scheme as well as for semi detached houses under the Kampung Rimba Landless Scheme for the Indigenous People and houses developed by the developers under the Kampung Rimba Landless Scheme for the  Indigenous People at Kampung Tungku (Katok 'A') and Kampung Madang in the Brunei Muara District.

Upon arrival at the Dato Othman Primary School Wednesday, His Majesty the Sultan and Yang DiPertuan of Brunei Darussalam was greeted by  the Minister of Development, Pehin Dato Doctor Awang Haji Ahmad, the Deputy Minister of Home Affairs, Pehin  Dato Awang Haji Adnan and the Brunei Muara District Officer,  Dato Awang Haji Adnan.

The function began with a recitation of the surah Al-Fatihah led by Syari'e Subordinate court judge of the Brunei Muara district, Pengiran Haji Mohammad Tasim bin Pengiran Haji Hassan. The Brunei Muara District Officer, in his welcoming address, called upon the recipients of the land lots and house keys to be grateful and to give their undivided loyalty to His Majesty as well as to continue support the monarch's wise leadership.

His Majesty then consented to present land lots under the Kampung Lambak Kanan National Housing Scheme to 57 people, and to another 231 people who received Land lots and house keys under the Kampung Rimba, Gadong National Housing Scheme. Three people received keys to the semi-detached house under the Kampung Rimba Landless Scheme for Indigenous people and eight people received their house keys for developers' houses under the Kampung Rimba Landless Scheme for Indigenous people at Kampung Tungku (Katok 'A') and Kampung Madang.

According to statistics of the Housing Development Department that 7448 houses and land lots nationwide under the national housing scheme have been handed over to the applicants. The department also stated that there are more than 41 thousand people nationwide have applied for the housing scheme since 1980 until last year, and from that total 29,382 applicants are from the Brunei Muara District. Doa selamat was read by the Syari'e Subordinate Court judge of the Brunei Muara District.