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Selangor Water Crisis: Time To Change The Top Management

By “Top Management” I mean the state government.

Yes!

For the people of Petaling district, this is the second time that taps have run dry. The first was just before Aidil Adha (2nd September 2016) when a pipe burst caused taps in Subang Jaya, USJ, parts of Puchong and Pinggiran USJ to not have water supply for about three days. The second time which began two days ago is caused by contamination of the raw water supply to the Semenyih River Water Treatment Plant and this time several districts are affected namely

  • Hulu Langat (Bangi, Bandar Bukit Mahkota, Kajang, Semenyih and Rinching),
  • Kuala Langat (Morib, Banting, Saujana Putra, Bandar Rimbayu and Teluk Panglima Garang),
  • Petaling (USJ1-27, Puchong, Seri Kembangan and Serdang),
  • Sepang (Putrajaya, Cyberjaya, Bandar Nusa Putra, Putra Heights, Pulau Meranti, Kota Warisan, Bandar Bukit Puchong and Sungai Merab).

If you have no idea how huge an area that is, let me represent them using the map below:


Both these situations were totally avoidable. Since 2010 various water-related non-governmental organisations, water industry players as well as the Federal Government have advised the Pakatan-led Selangor state government to allow for the construction and completion of the Langat 2 Water Treatment Plant. Else, Selangor would face a water crisis by 2014. The state government vehemently denied that Selangor would face such a crisis.

True enough, people in Selangor had to undergo scheduled rationing in 2014 and 2015. 60,000 accounts were affected. That translates into at least 360,000 people who were directly affected. This time it could be far more.

Selangor has been giving away 20 cubic meters of water free to consumers since 2008 when Pakatan won the state from the Barisan Nasional – a very poorly thought of political decision; a populist move rather than a prudent one. It costs a lot not only to treat water but also to maintain 27,420 kilometres of pipes. Giving away water for free and not increasing tariffs will ensure that you would not be able to maintain your operations efficiently, and even an idiot would know this.

When a pipe burst on the 2nd September 2016, instead of helping by explaining the situation, an assemblyman decided to take it out on Syarikat Bekalan Air Selangor (SYABAS). This assemblyman gave the most absurd ideas on how to manage water cuts:


This invited a basket of zombies to support her statement, some even blaming the Federal government for the problem. In one of the community WhatsApp groups one even said that maybe the problem was created by the Barisan Nasional to create hatred towards the Selangor state government. What they failed to realise is that the Selangor state government IS the one managing it’s water treatment and supply:


Not clear enough? How about this? From September 2015, the Selangor state government owns the water concessionaires in the state!

The second problem is that unlike Penang, Selangor does not gazette its water catchment areas. Factories, loggers have no problem whatsoever to encroach into the water catchment areas. It is a no-brainer that this is the contributing factor to the hundreds of cases of contamination of the Langat and Semenyih rivers and their tributaries.

Let us not kid each other. The Selangor state government has been in denial about the dire water situation in the state since 2008. It was made worse when the whole situation was not dealt with properly and by not heeding the advice of the industry players.

So, I hope Hannah Yeoh actually means it when she said there should be a management change. It should be a change in the management of the state. It can’t even handle the basic but extremely critical issues and it’s members are spending more time bashing others than actually looking into the problems the rakyat is facing! And when shit actually hits the fan, this is the sorry excuse to say “Oh! We’re with you! We feel your pain!”


Yes, Hannah Yeoh. Let us have that change in the management soon. Your voters are already supporting your call.


In the famous words of your fellow party member and former USJ resident Jeff Ooi,

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Pernicious Pakatan

I still remember before the 12th General Elections when the Selangor Pakatan Rakyat came up with 23 promises in their manifesto. The first category, “Administration” had these:

  1. To ensure that all state assemblymen are always clean from misappropriation or corruption throughout their term of service.
  2. To form a special body To investigate any misappropriation regarding the administration of land and other state resources.

Everyone lauded the now-defunct Pakatan Rakyat for the manifesto. Soon after forming the state government the MACC was already investigating shady deals involving the state government that led to the demise of witness Teoh Beng Hock whose death benefitted DAP more than the Barisan Nasional, and the aide of former Menteri Besar, Khalid Ibrahim who has sinced been sentenced to prison with whipping.


Recently, PKR’s Chicken Blower Rafizi Ramli (above) made a report to the MACC on bribes being asked by members of the Selangor administration.


The bribes, in the form of women, are said to be asked to those wanting favours from people in the state government.

Today, we have been shocked once again – a former PKR Selangor MP has been arrested by the MACC for receiving bribes amounting to RM30,000 to facilitate a contractor’s tender process. He is also being investigated for eight other offences.

A despicable offence that he is also being investigated for is the misappropriation of provident funds of a disabled person. The money totaling  RM60,000 was siphoned out from the provident fund account after he convinced the disabled person to withdraw the savings and passed to him.


All the offences above were committed while he was still in office yet not one special body was set up by the Pakatan Rakyat government.

Pakatan Rakyat/Pakatan Harapan mase so much noise about the alleged abuses done by the Barisan Nasional from 1974-2008. Yet, the Selangor state government has managed to do despicable things within the first eight years alone.

They had no qualms cheating a disabled person of his life savings. And do you still want to give them power?

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Withering Heights 

There was a time when Anwar Ibrahim and ADIL (later KEADILAN, and then Parti Keadilan Rakyat) enjoyed the massive support of the rakyat no matter the program. That was the time when those who hated his guts such as the DAP and PAS treated him and his party as a political mules. The jockeys rode to victory in many places in 2008 while PKR only got the MB seat in Selangor by virtue of PKR being able to provide a Malay candidate as the MB.

As time goes by, the rakyat can finally see that other than Rafizi, Wan Azizah, N Surendran, Nurul Izzah and Tian Chua, PKR has nonother candidates qualified to become anything, and that PKR is nothing but a vehicle to promote Anwar Ibrahim as the next Prime Minister, and stops at only that.

The above is evident in the latest cow-dung shat by PKR in the case of the Tian Chua-arranged meeting between Nurul Izzah and Jacel Kiram, discarding the sensitivities causedby the Lahad Datu intrusion.

  
So how much support does PKR and its loose coalition have nowadays?

  
The above Pakatan-organised (PKR) forum was held in Opposition-held Shah Alam, its own safe seat. Using the favourite opposition-leaning media’s words, “tens of thousands” attended. Here is a photo of the forum.

   
My guess is we will have a new Menteri Besar in Selangor – a DAP stooge.  DAP as usual will have the most seats in Selangor and Mat Sabu-led Amananah will contest. Pseudo-religious voters will support Mat Sabu and his massacre of cartoons and among these DAP-friendly candidates, one will become the Menteri Besar-designate.
DAP will eventually have its way in Selangor.

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The Pakartun’s Poltroon

I cannot really make out what Tony Pua really is. What, not who. Either he is showing one of the early signs of dementia, or he truly is a retard.

Mr Puaka, as he is fondly referred to with a hint of sarcasm on social media, mentioned to the press that the DAP should contest in all the now-defunct Pakatan Rakyat seats held by former partner, PAS. That has brought about negative responses from PAS office-holders who still cling to the past and forgetting that DAP has welcomed PAS splinter-group PAN, as its partner in the recently announced Pakatan Harapan that has replaced the Pakatan Rakyat (except in Selangor).

  
The only reason for the Pakatan Rakyat to still exist in Selangor is because the Menteri Besar, Azmin Ali, knows if PAS is excluded then he would have to face the possibility of being ousted from office by the real holders of Selangor political power – the DAP. That is why I used the term Pakartun to describe the loose political cooperative.

Of course Mr Puaka talks big only when he is in Selangor, or when protected by immunity in Parliament.

Puaka has been using his privilege as a member of the Public Accounts Committee to hit out at 1MDB’s Arul Kanda. He dared Arul Kanda to an open forum or debate bit received no response from the latter. Now that Arul has turned around and accepted the debate challenge without terms and conditions, Mr Puaka has seemed to chicken out, giving all sorts of excuses not to debate, including saying:

“It should be a question-and-answer session and not a debate because I am asking the questions. There’s nothing for him (Arul) to ask me.”

He said the above to Pakartun’s unofficial media, Malaysiakini.

  

Like I said, I don’t know what to make out of Mr Puaka. He surely suffers from short-term memory loss. It was he who dared Arul Kanda to an open debate, but now wants to protect himself from being scrutinised by the latter. Lest we forget:

  He is a bright spark from the DAP. Therefore he can’t be suffering from dementia. But it sure proves that he is nothing but a yellow-bellied, milksop! 

  
N.B: for some reason I can hyperlink the NST story on Puaka and PAS but cannot hyperlink Malaysiakini’s story. So you can copy the URL here and paste into your browser’s address bar.

https://m.malaysiakini.com/news/317903

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Is Selangor No Longer Attractive Economically Or Is The State Government All Talk Cock?

  
It is a Ramadan and a bleak Syawal for the former workers of JVC Kenwood at Section 22 Shah Alam as the factory ceases its operations as reported by The Rakyat Post above.  I am sure the decision to cease operations must have been made much earlier than just a few months or a year ago as any plant closure affects production as well as support services.

Many were too quick to blame the Federal Government as according to them investments come under the purview of the Federal Government. Many however forget that investments in a state comes under the purview of the respective states’ economic development council or committee. 

Does the seemingly bleak economy (despite the A- rating by Fitch) have any role in the closure of the plant? Let us examine:

  
Now it seems that TASCO had come into a sales and purchase agreement with JVC Manufacturing Malaysia Sdm Bhd for the purchase of the said property in 2009. This is a year after Pakatan Rakyat took over the state from Barisan Nasional. Six years on, it seems as if the Selangor SEDC had done nothing to persuade JVC to maintain a plant in Selangor. Why so?

It is easy to put the blame on the Federal Government. However, JVC has been cutting back its workforce not just in Malaysia but worldwide.

“They told us that the factory operations were moving to Thailand,” said a worker.

It was reported last year that JVC had cut its workforce globally by 14% to just under 20,000 people and about 90% of production now took place mostly in Indonesia and Malaysia.

Checks on jobstreet.com have shown that JVC is still hiring staff for its Tampoi plant in Johor.

Similarly, a few metres away from the JVC plant, Ansell Malaysia Sdn Bhd’s operations have also ceased and its workers were retrenched yesterday. The Australian company made healthcare protective gear.

A worker on site said: “They are moving their operations to Melaka. They have already told us about this six months ago and compensation was also paid out.”

Therefore, we are seeing a move out of Selangor not just by JVC but also by other foreign companies as well, unless Melaka and Johor are not in Malaysia, or that these states are not affected by the “slowdown” in the Malaysian economy. 

Maybe it is the hard work that Johor’s and Melaka’s SEDC have put in to ensure that foreign companies do not divest, unlike Selangor’s that was not able to or did not talk to JVC when the sales and purchase agreement was made six years ago.

Maybe Selangor has lost the edge it once had when it was still governed by Barisan Nasional.

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Law Degree From SJK (T) Simpang Lima, Klang

Yes, it seems possible to get a law degree from a Tamil elementary school in Klang. I came to this conclusion after reading the Member of Parliament of Klang’s claim that the Menteri Besar of Selangor is a caretaker Menteri Besar and therefore cannot sign the water deal on behalf of the Selangor State Government.

Since when is the current Menteri Besar a caretaker? When was the Dewan dissolved? I hope Charles Santiago can provide a Selangor rakyat such as I with the correct references from the Selangor State Constitution that legally implies Khalid Ibrahim is a caretaker Menteri Besar.

Until then, whatever he spews out of his ugly face is a product of his cow-shit for brain.

Read what the MB had to say about Charles Santiago’s bullshit

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Insolence

Yesterday, Lim Guan Eng issued a press statement to the media apologising for selecting only one name for the purpose of HRH The Sultan of Selangor to select as the next Menteri Besar of Selangor.

Today, Anwar Ibrahim also apologised to HRH The Sultan through local media for his behaviour citing that he was only following the Selangor Constitution.

One, you don’t apologise to HRH The Sultan via the media. You write to His Majesty personally and send copies of your apology to the media. This is called MANNERS.

Two, you don’t apologise to His Majesty then give an excuse that you don’t think you’re in the wrong in the same length of breath! That is called INSOLENCE.

And insolence is not a Malaysian culture. It is the culture of barbarians!

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PKR: The Big Fat Joke – Part 4

KENYATAAN MEDIA DEWAN PEMUDA PAS WILAYAH PERSEKUTUAN 8 September 2014 / 13 Zulkaedah 1435H

Nik Nazmi : Langkah Kajang Yang Sumbang

Saya menggesa supaya Ketua Angkatan Muda Keadilan (AMK) merujuk terlebih dahulu punca krisis Menteri Besar Selangor yang bermula daripada Langkah Kajang sebelum membuat kesimpulan melulu terhadap kewibawaan Presiden PAS, Dato’ Seri Tuan Guru Abdul Hadi Awang.

Langkah Kajang yang dicatur jelas merapuhkan keutuhan Pakatan Rakyat dan menghakis semangat setiakawan yang dihulurkan oleh PAS.

Walaupun PAS telah menyatakan pendirian bahawa Langkah Kajang tidak berkaitan untuk menukar Menteri Besar Selangor, namun jelas pada tarikh 21 Julai 2014, PKR telah mengumumkan YB Dato’ Seri Dr Wan Azizah sebagai calon Menteri Besar yang baru. Sila rujuk juga kenyataan Presiden PKR yang disiarkan oleh laman berita Astro Awani bertarikh 5 Ogos 2014. “Kita merancang strategi ‘Langkah Kajang’ untuk membolehkan Anwar menjadi ahli dewan undangan negeri dan kemudiannya Menteri Besar tetapi telah digagalkan oleh kerajaan Barisan Nasional,” “Jawatan Menteri Besar sememangnya untuk Anwar pada awalnya, saya tidak akan teragak-agak untuk menjadikan beliau sebagai penasihat sekiranya saya menjadi Menteri Besar,”

Tindakan PKR tersebut memaksa PAS untuk mengadakan mesyuarat di peringkat Majlis Syura Ulama’ dan membuat keputusan untuk mengekalkan Tan Sri Khalid Ibrahim sebagai Menteri Besar Selangor. Kemudian, apabila beliau dipecat pada tarikh 9 Ogos 2014, PAS sekali lagi terpaksa bermesyuarat pada 17 Ogos 2014 untuk membuat pencalonan baru kerana Tan Sri Khalid Ibrahim sudah hilang kelayakan asas untuk menjadi Menteri Besar Selangor.

Mengambil kira keputusan PKR (21 Julai 2014), pemecatan Tan Sri Khalid Ibrahim, pihak istana dan perspektif Islam, Presiden PAS turut menamakan YB Azmin Ali untuk jawatan itu selain daripada Wan Azizah. Secara tidak langsung dan diamati dengan cermat, ia menzahirkan pendirian PAS dalam menentukan pemimpin utama untuk mentadbir sebuah kerajaan yang mesti seseorang individu yang berkebolehan, berkelayakan dan memiliki ciri-ciri kepimpinan tertentu.

Isu ini berlanjutan dan sehinggalah pada tarikh 27 Ogos pihak istana meminta setiap pemimpin parti menamakan lebih dua nama untuk dipertimbangkan oleh Sultan Selangor bagi mengisi jawatan Menteri Besar. Perkara tersebut telah dipenuhi oleh Presiden PAS dan ia sekali lagi menunjukkan sikap matang dan bijak.

Saya berpendapat, YB Nik Nazmi memulakan langkah sumbang sebagai Ketua AMK yang baru. Beliau harus akur bahawa liabiliti politik yang berlaku pada hari ini di Selangor menimbulkan kegusaran di peringkat akar umbi. Saya menjangkakan kita akan mengambil tempoh masa yang lebih lama untuk memulihkan sokongan kepada Pakatan Rakyat. Yang Benar, Ir. Hj. Khairil Nizam Khirudin, Ketua Pemuda, Dewan Pemuda PAS Wilayah

Page Rasmi Ir Hj Khairil Nizam Khirudin | Naib Ketua Dewan Pemuda PAS Malaysia, Ketua Dewan Pemuda PAS Wilayah Persekutuan
2014-09-08
 

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What Selangor Crisis?

When people ask me about the Selangor crisis, I give them a simple answer in the form of several simple questions:

Is the Sultan of Selangor still the Head of State? The answer is Yes.

Is there a functioning Menteri Besar as the CEO of the State? The answer is Yes.

Are there four State Executive Committee members assisting the Menteri Besar of Selangor? The answer is Yes.

Are people still going to work and earning their daily bread peacefully? The answer is Yes.

Are parents more worried about the UPSR exams this coming Tuesday? The answer is Yes.

Is PKR getting its way to have only sole nominations for Wan Kipas Azizah to become the Menteri Besar? The answer is No.

Therefore the crisis is in PKR only, not in Selangor. They are stubborn and continue to defy the request made by HRH the Sultan of Selangor and are doing so with absolute arrogance.

Is this the kind of party we want leading the rakyat through misleadings?
Hell, No!

See how arrogant PKR is:

PKR arrogantly defies the HRH Sultan of Selangor and towards PAS

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PKR: The Big Fat Joke – Part 3

This evening started off with a communiqué from PKR’s Secretary-General:

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Five minutes later, the Sec-Gen got outranked:

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These comedians should try going into that line instead of politics. They can’t even agree on how to communicate and they dream about governing this country.

May I suggest for them becoming stand up comedians in, perhaps Saturday Night Dead!