Case of Jitai Damage to Neighbors Shen Boyang: If there are doubts about the role of the city government and there are no construction drawings, there must be problems

Shen Boyang. (Photo by reporter Tu Jianrong)

In Taipei City in 2023, the Jitai incident caused serious damage to neighbors. The affected households were in a deadlock with Jitai over rent compensation and reconstruction issues. Famous mouthpiece Li Zhenghao broke the news on a political commentary program, and recordings provided by the Self-Rescue Association also showed that Kitai revealed that he went to the office of then deputy mayor Li Sichuan for consultation in 2023. Shen Boyang, Taipei mayoral candidate of the Democratic Progressive Party, said today (13th) that the biggest doubt about this matter is, what is the role of the city government? Why does Kitai want to talk to the city government?

Shen Boyang attended the "Vote For Home: Hometown Way" press conference today. After the meeting, he was interviewed and said that the whole thing sounded a bit doubtful. Based on the initial commitment between Kitai and the residents, based on the video submitted by the affected households, it seemed that Kitai was initially willing to pay the rent for the first three years and would continue to do so later. However, subsequent talks with the city government did not seem to be the case.

He said the biggest doubt in this matter is, what is the role of the city government? If it is an agreement between residents and Kitai, the city government should have no room for comment. Why should Kitai talk to the city government? The city government said at the very beginning that it would be a public application, which might require a building license or something like that, but it seems that Kitai’s only application is related to parking lots. It seems that there are still some doubts to be clarified about this matter, but because the information collected so far is not enough, based on what he knows so far, this is probably what he thinks.

The media asked, the Supervisory Yuan pointed out that the city government did not retain the construction drawings. Is there any negligence? Shen Boyang said that if the construction drawings are missing, there must be an oversight or problem, because only with the construction drawings can we know what caused the neighboring house to collapse.