Press statement by Kua Kia Soong, SUARAM Adviser 17 Aug 2019
Despite our bloated civil service that continues to bleed our annual budget dry, the new PH government continues to procrastinate solving the nation’s problems by forming new committees, task forces, advisers, all of which will further bleed the national coffers.
Continue reading “TASK FORCES, COMMITTEES ARE MERE PROCRASTINATION”Press statement by Kua Kia Soong, SUARAM Adviser 3 Jan 2019
There seems to be no end to the UEC recognition farce. The Prime Minister now tells us that “the recognition of UEC needs to consider the feelings of Malays.” This is after the Education Minister had set up a special committee “…to gather views on recognising the Unified Examination Certificate”. The justification for selection of the committee members was never spelled out nor were the terms of reference clear from the start. The Minister had earlier said that formal recognition of the Unified Examination Certificate (UEC) will only be made “after a comprehensive and holistic study on the issue has been completed… whether the formal recognition of UEC could potentially compromise unity and harmony among Malaysians … the status of Bahasa Malaysia as the national language…”
Press statement by Kua Kia Soong, SUARAM Adviser 2 Aug 2018
The pussyfooting over the recognition of the UEC which was one of the election promises of Pakatan Harapan and the misrepresentation of the facts of the issue amounts to an utterly egregious conversation. Why do I say this?
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Press statement by Kua Kia Soong, SUARAM Adviser 16 July 2018
Through all this pussyfooting over the recognition of the UEC by the PH government, does it not make you wonder how the PH election manifesto was drafted, such as who took part in the drafting and how it was endorsed by the PH leaders? One would have expected that the person they would finally appoint as the Education Minister to be in the committee to study the UEC before they endorsed it…
Well, from the backtracking that we have seen since GE14 and the utterances of PH leaders especially by the new Education Minister, you would think that the supposedly democratic process through which the manifesto was drafted and eventually endorsed did not amount to much. Was the PH election manifesto just “a piece of paper” to be ripped apart after the elections?
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By Kua Kia Soong, SUARAM Adviser, 28 March 2018
Now that Pakatan has vowed to recognize the Unified Examination Certificate (UEC) in their GE14 manifesto, it would be ludicrous for BN to follow suit by doing the same in their forthcoming manifesto. They should be reminded that they are the ruling coalition, the same coalition that has run this country for more than sixty years!
No, the BN Government would look less silly if they announced the recognition of the UEC as soon as possible, ie. BEFORE their manifesto is launched.
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