Pahang gov't has failed to provide land for affordable housing - Zuraida
The Pahang state government has so far failed to provide the right land for the development of affordable housing projects as requested by the federal government, said Housing and Local Government Minister Zuraida Kamaruddin.
"I have been asking the state government to offer us the right land for the development of affordable housing projects. But the state government (Pahang) has not given us the land as requested,” she told reporters after attending a traditional cooking competition at Kampung Sungai Koyan 3, in Kuala Lipis, today.
She added that each state government needed to present a suitable and strategic land location which had good infrastructural development and transport system.
Meanwhile, Zuraida, who is also PKR vice-president, said the federal government would not discriminate against the state government although it was an opposition state.
"The central government is not like the previous BN (government). We will not cut the allocations that should be given to them.
Zuraida hoped that Pakatan Harapan candidate M.Manogaran would win the Cameron Highlands parliamentary by-election tomorrow, as it will be the beginning and will set the pace for Pahang to be “conquered” by Harapan in the next general election.
Cameron Highlands is seeing a by-election tomorrow followng the Election Court annulling the victory of C Sivarraajh of the BN in the 14th general election for vote-buying.
The by-election is a four-cornered contest involving the Harapan and BN and two independent candidates.
Besides Manogaran, the other candidates are BN's Ramli Mohd Nor (a former senior police officer) and independents Sallehudin Ab Talib (a former lecturer at the Aminuddin Baki Institute) and farmer Wong Seng Yee, who holds a Masters Degree in Horticultural Science.
- Bernama
I'm curious...where do you draw the line when a Minister makes a speech like this during a political campaign? Can they use ministerial specific material to campaign, or is that a violation of privilege information from the ministry for political gain?
If that is the case, make sure the Pahang people knows that there will be no affordable housing in their state because the Pahang government refuse to provide the land for them.
Pahang being the largest state in West Malaysia with rich natural resources is also one of the poorest states.The state government and the past federal government under scumno and BN has criminally neglected the development of the state.The blame is entirely on the greedy inept self serving and corrupted political elites of the party that has ruled since Merdeka. Cameron Highlands is a good example of exposing the incompetent and corrupted administration under scumno and BN.Today the people in Pahang unfortunately are still not free from the grasp of power under the same inept ruling elites.