This is the story reported by The Star today:Malay contractors send protest note to (Penang Chief Minister) Koh
The Penang Malay Contractors Association is upset with the Penang Municipal Council for awarding projects to contractors from outside the state since early this year.
Chairman Mohamed Fadzill Hassan said it had sent a protest letter to Chief Minister Tan Sri Dr Koh Tsu Koon recently.
“If nothing comes out of this we will even consider raising the matter with the Finance Minister or Prime Minister Datuk Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi,” he said.
He was commenting on the council’s decision to award road sweeping, grass cutting and drain cleaning projects to several contractors from Selangor recently.
The Star had reported that the council awarded the RM8mil project to 33 contractors.
Of this, it is learnt that eight contractors were from Seberang Prai and four from Selangor.
Mohamed Fadzill said: “... why give them (the projects) to contractors from Selangor?
Mohamed Fadzill said it was not legally wrong but an “ethical” issue as many contractors from Penang were facing problems in securing projects.
State Malay Businessmen and Industrialists Association chairman Datuk Waris Ali Abdul Carrim said the group was also unhappy over the matter.
Deputy Chief Minister Datuk Seri Abdul Rashid Abdullah expressed regret that the council had awarded projects to outsiders.
Will we be facing a new Malaysian dilemma albeit a similar Malay dilemma?
If what the Penang politicians and businessmen said is upheld as a political convention and a rule, we could face much insidious issues such as:
1) Nationally, we are all Malaysian citizens but we will be differentiated and classified according to a class of people. Currently we are already facing the problem of racial differentiation and religious divide. We will now be further classified into races from each state. So you can be a Malay, but a Selangor Malay or Penang Malay? Similarly, the other races will suffer the same fate.
2) If the Penangites Malay representatives will have this "rights" then what about the impact on other issues, such as, education, sports, investments, etc? Would we be saying that Penangites would not be allowed to study in universities in other states as they would also be depriving the locals of each state. Penang should also built their own sports academy and institutions so that they won't have to come to KL to stay and train. Investors from each state should also not invests in the other states as this would deprive the locals from an opportunity for employment and depriving the state from economic development. Penang boys should not be allowed to marry girls from other states because it would deprive the other boys from their respective states of an opportunity to have a wife, and that applies to girls too. Then, if every state start to act at such, what will happen to Malaysia?
It can be observe that what had happen and why are we in such a dilemma can primarily be attributed to the political system adopted by the Barisan and in particular, UMNO per se. The nation is truly driving to the dogs with this ideological (I think it should be called Idioticology) philosophy and if we observed, it has so far being preached and enunciated by those idiots and oxy-morons.
9 comments:
mav... chinese call it 'gwai ta gwai'.... right?
Well, those "silent majority" Malay will not see what is coming on them.
its tragic isnt it with this kind of mentality. their faculty needs a little bit spring cleaning and maybe these people can think more clearly.
vow, the situation keeps on degenrating and i just cant get a grip that things will turn for the better. scary, isnt it?
With such mentality, should they be doing business at all?
Mav,
Same goes to Lebuhraya Pantai Timur (LPT) from Karak to Kuantan and soon to Kuala Terengganu. Local only get contract for cabut rumput (landscape) and cuci longkang only. The rest all comes from Selangor...
And the local said:-
"kitorang makang tulang jer, isi kena makang kok orang denung.."
Hope u understand their dialect.
Great mental seizure! It is as though our nation is NOT divided enough by race, color, religious beliefs, policies and ideologies...we have this political flasher suggesting another divide...regional. See what we will be celebrating after 50 years of so-called illusionary independence. We have indeed progress...from a growing "organ" to divided sick cells (biological sense).
Next, Batu Ferringhi malay contractors will complain that govt projects there have been awarded to malay contractors from Tanjung Bunga and Air Itam and so on. When the economic cake gets smaller by the day due to the short-sighted policies of the Pek Leh Boleh administration, infighting will break out even among family members for a slice of the ever-shrinking cake
oh no! so the penang malay association and the malay businessmen are at it again. remember what happened last time? they had complained malays not given business or something like that and they hold a demo against dr koh (when the PM was visiting!).
think this is another way of them silently saying they want dr koh out as CM and want a malay as CM!!
let take a street man point of view,
if I don't have enought, how can I give you, En Mohamed Fazill Hassan is right to protest
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