Soon Koh blasts Ho Leng for ‘ignorance of Federal Constitution’
Posted on June 28, 2011, Tuesday
MINISTER of Environment and Public Health Dato Sri Wong Soon Koh yesterday hit out at Wong Ho Leng (DAP-Bukit Assek) for being totally ignorant of Article 109 of the Federal Constitution.
“Does he know that the Malaysian Road Records Information System’s (Marris) road maintenance fund is automatically granted by the federal government?
“He claimed credit on the newly sealed road at Telok Bango in Sibu saying ‘My voice in Parliament has been heard’. What a cheap publicity,” Wong said in his winding-up speech at the State Legislative Assembly.
Under Article 109(1)(b) of the Federal Constitution, fund for the maintenance of all state roads, including council and village roads, is provided by the federal government.
Soon Koh pointed out that what the opposition leader should have done as a parliamentarian “is to appeal for a larger allocation for Sibu in addition to the normal grant under the existing formula.”
The minister also quoted what Ho Leng, David Wong (DAP-Pelawan) and Yap Hoi Liong (DAP-Dudong) said about the road conditions in Sibu last week, which invited roars of protests from the opposition bench.
“We must admit that road conditions in Sibu indeed leave much to be desired. Sibu is situated in a delta basin with 73 per cent of its land mass peat soil as deep as 20 metres or more,” said Soon Koh.
He recalled being told: “During the initial stage of construction of certain stretches of New Airport Road, workers left their trucks in the newly sandfilled roads for lunch.
“When they returned from lunch, the trucks simply disappeared – they sank into the deep peat and were completely submerged.”
Despite this, he felt that roads in Sibu “are not that bad or good only for horses.”
“Claims by the three YBs from Sibu that ‘potholes everywhere would rock the car as if it is hit by rockets’ are not even good enough for coffeeshop talks, really not so dignified and demeaning.
“But it is typical of DAP being so ruthless and unscrupulous in their speeches and in their choice of words, hoping to work up the emotions of the people against the BN,” he pointed out. He also challenged Ho Leng to tender for the dredging project at the bottleneck at Pulau Kerto, for which the federal government had allocated fund.
“This is your golden opportunity, go for it. Do something for the people of Sibu, after all, almost the whole of Sibu is under you, the DAP.”
Throughout the more than an hour winding-up, Soon Koh did not grant the floor to any opposition member, who sought point of order, except Dr Wong Hua Seh (DAPRepok).
Met by reporters later, Ho Leng claimed that people would be disappointed with the minister’s speech for the latter spent quite a substantial time on criticising the opposition members from Sibu.
“I can see his evil grin while indulging in his own speech. He gave way only to Dr Wong Hua Seh as he reasoned that he is a doctor. In this case, (Minister of Public Utilities Datuk Amar) Awang Tengah (Ali Hassan) is a role model as he shared the floor and replied to our points of order.”
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Tuesday, 28 June 2011
Sunday, 19 June 2011
Chinese will support BN if it adopts changes, assures Teng
Posted on June 19, 2011, Sunday
KUCHING: The Chinese community will embrace Barisan Nasional (BN) again if the ruling government adapts to changes and reviews certain policies, asserted Sarawak United Peoples’ Party (SUPP) treasurer Datuk David Teng.
Describing Chinese as “agile, elastic and realistic”, the former assistant minister said they were responsive to necessary changes and had never indicated that they would not opt for change.
“The Chinese have nothing against the government. They are merely unhappy with some Barisan Nasional government policies.
“During the state election in April, Chinese voters sent a strong message that they are not happy with Barisan Nasional,” he was recently quoted as saying in a local daily here.
The former Repok assemblyman pointed out that BN “is in a dire need of spring-cleaning,” quipping that if it were to be regarded as a residence it would have gathered enough dust.
“The spring-cleaning must be launched as soon as possible. Every Barisan Nasional component party is obligated to cleanse the dusty place.
“The largest component party in particular should not shun the obligation. After all, the largest party essentially influences the whole Barisan Nasional system,” he said.
He charged that BN was the root cause of people’s dissatisfaction, claiming many issues arose following the policies and decisions of BN government, most of which had led to dissent and lament.
“Barisan Nasional has been in power for a long time and it is natural that a house becomes dusty after some non-cleaning period.
“Hence, wise and courageous leaders must take up the challenge to see through a spring-cleaning. As far as spring-cleaning is concerned, there are things we need to get rid of,” he stressed.
As a member of BN, Teng admitted that the coalition came with various unsettled issues that had displeased the communities.
He believed that a thorough cleansing would help tone down the aggressiveness of the opposition and subsequently making them powerless.
KUCHING: The Chinese community will embrace Barisan Nasional (BN) again if the ruling government adapts to changes and reviews certain policies, asserted Sarawak United Peoples’ Party (SUPP) treasurer Datuk David Teng.
Describing Chinese as “agile, elastic and realistic”, the former assistant minister said they were responsive to necessary changes and had never indicated that they would not opt for change.
“The Chinese have nothing against the government. They are merely unhappy with some Barisan Nasional government policies.
“During the state election in April, Chinese voters sent a strong message that they are not happy with Barisan Nasional,” he was recently quoted as saying in a local daily here.
The former Repok assemblyman pointed out that BN “is in a dire need of spring-cleaning,” quipping that if it were to be regarded as a residence it would have gathered enough dust.
“The spring-cleaning must be launched as soon as possible. Every Barisan Nasional component party is obligated to cleanse the dusty place.
“The largest component party in particular should not shun the obligation. After all, the largest party essentially influences the whole Barisan Nasional system,” he said.
He charged that BN was the root cause of people’s dissatisfaction, claiming many issues arose following the policies and decisions of BN government, most of which had led to dissent and lament.
“Barisan Nasional has been in power for a long time and it is natural that a house becomes dusty after some non-cleaning period.
“Hence, wise and courageous leaders must take up the challenge to see through a spring-cleaning. As far as spring-cleaning is concerned, there are things we need to get rid of,” he stressed.
As a member of BN, Teng admitted that the coalition came with various unsettled issues that had displeased the communities.
He believed that a thorough cleansing would help tone down the aggressiveness of the opposition and subsequently making them powerless.
Thursday, 31 March 2011
Is Pakatan "buku jingga" workable??
1. Instruct Khazanah Berhad, Employees’ Provident Fund (EPF) and other government bodies to take over highway assets from the concessionaires in order to abolish the toll system.
- By asking EPF, Khazanah Berhad and other government bodies to take over highway assets, means that they need to firstly pay those private company for their loses in building all these highways.
-Since no toll will be collected, Thus EPF, Khazanah Berhad and other govt bodies will be investing in a project that wont generate them income. meaning they pay the private highway company to take over assets than no income coming in as no toll charges, thus the investment is declared as loses? meaning what ever amount invested by all this company in taking over the highway will be considered losses?
-Not only will the investment be written off as losses but these company also need to maintain and upgrade the highway. meaning to say that, they need to invest money in to acquire highways, get no income back as no toll collection,and futher incur more losses each year as need to maintain these highway acquired by them.
- will the people benefit if EPF that is contributed by employers for the benefit of their workers is lost?
-By doing this also means no highway by private firm, as no one will invest to build a highway and cant collect money back.
2. A restructure of the country’s subsidies, to lessen subsidies given to the private sector (such as the RM19 billion in gas subsidies given to independent power producers) and transferring these to subsidies for the man on the street.
-By not subsidizing these independent power producers, wont the cost of producing electricity and so on go up? thus as private company do they need to up the charges so that they don't suffer losses??
-Isn't the current govt policy of subsidizing these private power producers directly benefiting the people as the people directly get cheaper rates???. By not subsidizing the private power producers and giving the money direct to the public will generate a lot of paperwork. As by doing so now the govt need to find out who uses these power than only give money to them. Is this a practical solution?
_This statement by Pakatan also inform the public that infact the BN govt is already giving RM19 billion as subsidy so that the public at large is getting lower rates!
For the reason stated above please for your own future and future of your future generation make sure that they still has a future to look forward to rather than a vote to give your state or country to a party that will bankrupt it. thus effecting your future and future of your next generation.
- By asking EPF, Khazanah Berhad and other government bodies to take over highway assets, means that they need to firstly pay those private company for their loses in building all these highways.
-Since no toll will be collected, Thus EPF, Khazanah Berhad and other govt bodies will be investing in a project that wont generate them income. meaning they pay the private highway company to take over assets than no income coming in as no toll charges, thus the investment is declared as loses? meaning what ever amount invested by all this company in taking over the highway will be considered losses?
-Not only will the investment be written off as losses but these company also need to maintain and upgrade the highway. meaning to say that, they need to invest money in to acquire highways, get no income back as no toll collection,and futher incur more losses each year as need to maintain these highway acquired by them.
- will the people benefit if EPF that is contributed by employers for the benefit of their workers is lost?
-By doing this also means no highway by private firm, as no one will invest to build a highway and cant collect money back.
2. A restructure of the country’s subsidies, to lessen subsidies given to the private sector (such as the RM19 billion in gas subsidies given to independent power producers) and transferring these to subsidies for the man on the street.
-By not subsidizing these independent power producers, wont the cost of producing electricity and so on go up? thus as private company do they need to up the charges so that they don't suffer losses??
-Isn't the current govt policy of subsidizing these private power producers directly benefiting the people as the people directly get cheaper rates???. By not subsidizing the private power producers and giving the money direct to the public will generate a lot of paperwork. As by doing so now the govt need to find out who uses these power than only give money to them. Is this a practical solution?
_This statement by Pakatan also inform the public that infact the BN govt is already giving RM19 billion as subsidy so that the public at large is getting lower rates!
For the reason stated above please for your own future and future of your future generation make sure that they still has a future to look forward to rather than a vote to give your state or country to a party that will bankrupt it. thus effecting your future and future of your next generation.
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