The ongoing spat between BN federal government (with vested interests in privatized concessionaires) and Pakatan Selangor state government (with leaders who find the lop-sided contracts hard to swallow) has lead to the forming of a cabinet committee (comprising BN federal ministers and a Selangor state leader, all perceived to be bias) to look into it.
RPK, in his usual wisdom with unusual views, is of the opinion that water should be in the hands of the federal government because it is their responsibility and it costs way too much for a state to handle. That federal is now in BN hands and Selangor is under Pakatan, any change in federal power would affect this line of thinking. But considering Selangor is the richest state, is water that costly that it has to be in federal hands, especially BN? I would personally like Selangor to be given a chance (if ever possible) to prove that it is capable of doing so without expensive lop-sided contracts forced down its throat.
RPK's view has led to criticism by Humblevoice which led to his usual rebuttal http://malaysia-today.net/mtcolumns/no-holds-barred/50679-water-privatisation-my-response-to-humblevoice
I can't help being reminded and recalled what Ong (not me) described him as, 'RPK now sees himself as a person who is always right half the time and never wrong the other half of the time.' in Malaysiakini
http://www.malaysiakini.com/news/204053 .
Meanwhile, in an unrelated matter, but related to Selangor, someone posted this caricatured picture in Facebook, showing Chairman of Trinity Corp Bhd (who happens to be an ex-partner of international accounting firm Arthur Andersen) giving a lecture to MCA's Chua Tee Yong (chartered accountant), Theng Bok, Ms. Tow-truck, and Yap Pian Hon!
The reason why I tend to mix up the two matters (water and Talam) was the pictures of Chua and company holding pictures of land covered with water, at the time when BN, Syabas and NST tried to create an impression of water shortage, which in turn created responses from Pakatan's leaders like Ronnie Liu and Dr Xavier Jayakumar, with pictures of them next to dams filled with water!
Update on July 21:
http://www.malaysia-chronicle.com/index.php?option=com_k2&view=item&id=36886:are-questionable-numbers-being-used-to-manufacture-water-crisis?&Itemid=2
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RPK, in his usual wisdom with unusual views, is of the opinion that water should be in the hands of the federal government because it is their responsibility and it costs way too much for a state to handle. That federal is now in BN hands and Selangor is under Pakatan, any change in federal power would affect this line of thinking. But considering Selangor is the richest state, is water that costly that it has to be in federal hands, especially BN? I would personally like Selangor to be given a chance (if ever possible) to prove that it is capable of doing so without expensive lop-sided contracts forced down its throat.
RPK's view has led to criticism by Humblevoice which led to his usual rebuttal http://malaysia-today.net/mtcolumns/no-holds-barred/50679-water-privatisation-my-response-to-humblevoice
I can't help being reminded and recalled what Ong (not me) described him as, 'RPK now sees himself as a person who is always right half the time and never wrong the other half of the time.' in Malaysiakini
http://www.malaysiakini.com/news/204053 .
Meanwhile, in an unrelated matter, but related to Selangor, someone posted this caricatured picture in Facebook, showing Chairman of Trinity Corp Bhd (who happens to be an ex-partner of international accounting firm Arthur Andersen) giving a lecture to MCA's Chua Tee Yong (chartered accountant), Theng Bok, Ms. Tow-truck, and Yap Pian Hon!
The reason why I tend to mix up the two matters (water and Talam) was the pictures of Chua and company holding pictures of land covered with water, at the time when BN, Syabas and NST tried to create an impression of water shortage, which in turn created responses from Pakatan's leaders like Ronnie Liu and Dr Xavier Jayakumar, with pictures of them next to dams filled with water!
Update on July 21:
DUBIOUS numbers used to 'MANUFACTURE' the so-called Water Crisis?
http://www.malaysia-chronicle.com/index.php?option=com_k2&view=item&id=36886:are-questionable-numbers-being-used-to-manufacture-water-crisis?&Itemid=2
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