Kota Kinabalu City Hall has started to vacant the Tanjung Aru beach stall owner despite they pleaded for extension and was promised by the Tanjung Aru ADUN, YB Edward Yong to stay until Hari Raya (i). The stall owner was caught off guard unexpectedly by the City Hall to move to the new site near Anjung Selera, Likas Bay. The food centre is known as Anjung Perdana Tanjung Aru has attracted thousands of locals and tourist for the local food and beautiful sunset scenery became a top tourist spot in Kota Kinabalu city. Samsuri Said (60) a fish cracker snack (keropok lekor) seller, told at least 40 tourist buses arrived loaded with Chinese tourist brought by their tour guide to the hawker centre. He started his stall since 2002 is happy with the business income but disappointed with the City Hall failure to maintain the area properly. Nonon (59) and wife Sisia, started the food and drink stall business in Tanjung Aru beach since the 70s selling coconut water. He hopes to continue selling food and drinks at Tanjung Aru beach because of his customers mainly came from China and Korea and some others nearby from Brunei and Sarawak. The sudden move order will affect their business greatly as the new site at Likas Bay is not practical for tourist and visitors to come due to its lack dining table space and parking space for customers which cause them lost of income. Sisia was upset because the City Hall has broken their promises to the stall owner in past discussion in order to make them agreed to move but due to no proper record, she unwilling to say what was agreed. The clearing of the Tanjung Aru food stall centre marks the beginning of the big destruction of a beautiful and pristine beach that means a lot to many people. The first section of Tanjung Aru Beach also known as First Beach was believed leased (ii) to Sugar Bun company for 10 years started in 2000. A condition was made to Sugar Bun company to build a hawker food centre to accommodate the previously stall owner which their stall was taken by the lease to Sugar Bun company. When the lease expired in 2010, Kota Kinabalu City Hall didn’t extend the lease but still allow Sugar Bun company now known as The Borneo Oil Berhad to stay without a lease agreement. In 2013 a redevelopment plan Tanjung Aru Eco Development was announced (iii) by CM Musa and launched by PM Najib after a legal victory (iv) in 2012 in taking back the area from a private company that had failed to develop it. It was proposed, a 558 acres (226 hectares) reclamation project (v) along the Tanjung Aru seamless beach and excavation of a 42 wide and 6 km canal project (vi) was aimed to make the properties more marketable. Video Credit: Sabah Sin Chew Daily (vii). *** i. http://dailyexpress.com.my/news.cfm?NewsID=123185 ii. http://www.theborneopost.com/2014/07/13/support-for-proposed-tanjung-aru-eco-devt/ iii. http://www.sabah.gov.my/press/docs/2013002121.htm iv. http://www.dailyexpress.com.my/news.cfm?NewsID=80209 v. http://dailyexpress.com.my/news.cfm?NewsID=114755 vi. https://www.thestar.com.my/metro/community/2017/02/14/sabah-architects-voice-concerns-on-canal-project/ vii. https://www.facebook.com/sabahsinchewdaily/videos/2038517262832142