Zambry making a cartoon (joke) out of the State of Perak.

 

 

 Media Statement by YB Dato' Ngeh Koo Ham

Najib & Zambry supported by MCA & Gerakan guilty of making a cartoon (a joke) of the State of Perak. The people of Perak suffer in consequence. Inabilility to restore the telephone lines to the State Secretariate & the Director of land and mines buildings after 3 weeks is the latest joke Zambry create out of Perak.

Fresh from the ‘success’ of spinning the ‘Black Metallic Zambry’remark, BN appointed Perak Menteri Besar Dato’ Seri Zambry bin Abdul Kadir in trying to split YB Nga Kor Ming’s one remark into 2 to try to score further political points. The remark made the YB Nga Kor Ming was ‘Hitam Metalik Zambry Menteri Besar Perak Darul Kartun’

‘Black Metallic Zambry’ was a humour adapted from the Black Metallic Camry which the BN opposed when the Perak PR government bought Black Metallic Toyota Camry cars to replace the ailing Proton Perdanas. The phrase was used because it rhymes.The skin colour of a person is never described as metallic. Zambry knew that Kor Ming was referring to the colour of the Camry car but played racial politics by twisting it to say it refers to the human skin colour. He makes a cartoon of himself when he twisted the remark to refer to darker skin people.This in the level BN appointed power crazy Menteri Besar will stoop.

Now Zambry in trying to spin and say that YB Nga Kor Ming is disrespectful of the State when he described the State as ‘Perak Darul Kartun’

Najib & Zambry supported by MCA & Gerakan are guilty of making the Perak State a cartoon (a joke) and yet Zambry is accusing  others of being disrespectful of the State.

I am astonished that Zambry still did not realize that he has made the Perak State a joke due to his actions. Unfortunately, the people of Perak became victims and suffered in misery.

The following incidences have made the Perak State a joke to many people : -

(i)            Democratically elected government ousted by non democratic means

(ii)          Refusal of BN to respect the wishes of the people by calling a fresh election.

(iii)        Not allowing the State Assembly Speaker (undisputed at that point of time) to convence a sitting at the State Assembly Hall and he was forced to conduct the sitting under a tree.

(iv)          The State Assembly Speaker was forcibly removed from his seat in the State Assembly and imprisoned in a room.

(v)            State Budget passed within 20 minutes without debate.

(vi)          Microphones of opposition elected representatives switch off so that their speeches will not he heard and also not  recorded in the Hansard.

(vii)        Using the Police to invade and control the State Assembly.

(viii)      Elected representation not allowed to enter the State Assembly without permission of the police & civil servants stationed at the locked doors of the Assembly.

(ix)         Elected representatives allowed into Assembly only if issued with a pass by the State Secretary. Even former BN Menteri Besar, Tan Sri Dato Seri Di Raja Tajol Rosli was offended and described it as demeaning.

(x)           Judges do not follow the law (precedents) when deciding on Perak crisis cases.

(xi)         Laws are selectively applied (especially Article 72 of the Federal Constitution prohibiting interference of the Judiciary in matters of the State Assembly)

(xii)       A court Registar can appoint a Court of Appeal Judge to sit and stay (suspend) the decision of the High Court judge who has declared Dato’ Sri Nizar Jamaluddin as the legitimate Menteri Besar when there were 2 other panel of 3 judges each of the Court of Appeal sitting on that day. The stay was granted within 24 hours!

(xiii)     The swearing in of Zambly as Menteri Besar was obstructed and spontaneously objected to by thousand of protestors.

(xiv)       BN Government refused to answer questions asked in the State Assembly without valid reason

and the list can continue.

Zambry should stop making a clown of himself and continue to make the Perak State a cartoon by continue to spin falsehood.

Many investors have expressed their unwillingness to invest in the State of Perak until the illeginate government of Zambry is replaced. The Perakeans are unfortunately the victims who continue to suffer in consequent of Zambry continuing to make a cartoon of the Perak State.

The latest joke Zambry created out of Perak is that the telephone lines to the State Secretariate and the Director of land and mines buildings (both buildings form the seat of administration of the Government of Perak) have yet to be restored despite having been down for the last 3 weeks.

Let the people of Perak be reminded of these black days of Perak after the grab of power by BN since February 2009 and be united to oust the undemocratically installed BN government in the coming General Election.

 

Dated this 8^th December, 2011.

YB Dato' Ngeh Koo Ham

State Assemblyman for Sitiawan

&

Member of Parliament for Beruas

Ipoh,Perak.

M Kula : New contract for temporary teachers is too unfair and must be reviewed.

Media Statement by M Kula Segaran, DAP National Vice Chairman and MP for Ipoh Barat in Ipoh on Thursday, December 08, 2011

New contract for temporary teachers is too unfair and must be reviewed.

There are roughly over 400 temporary teachers now in Perak. They are what it is called the Guru Sandaran Tidak Terlatih (GSTT). Many of these teachers have been teaching for 3-4 years. 

All these teachers who are teaching in Perak were recently asked to attend a briefing held on 25/11/11 in a school in Silibin, Ipoh.

At the briefing, they were told that all temporary teachers would be now employed on a “contract for service” basis instead of the traditional contract of service.

This change came as shock to the teachers present. The new contract entails new unfair terms which include among others:

1)      No payment of EPF by the Government;

2)      No payment of COLA;

3)      Restricted medical coverage;

4)      Daily paid instead of the previous monthly paid

Temporary teachers have made immense contribution to the nation, yet the government has decided to implement a new system which removes their right s, rather than protect them.

The change means the relationship of master and servant or employer /employee relationship is done away with and replaced with sort of a self employed relationship. 

With this new arrangement, effective 17th November( last day of school) all temporary teachers will cease to be paid till December 2011 unless the schools request the teachers to report to work and for that they will be paid daily. 

I have been given to understand that at the briefing, top education officers form Putrajaya and Ipoh were present. The meeting was very tense and the temporary teachers felt their years of service had not been appreciated. 

In fact during question time, many questions were posed by the temporary teachers who were shocked with the new terms and conditions. The meeting lasted for over 4 hours. 

At the meeting, a top officer from Putrajaya retorted that the teachers should be “grateful” to the offer as the government had the discretion in not even providing or offering any employment.

How could an officer make such an unfair and unacceptable comment?

He should be hauled up and given a tongue lashing by the Education Minister as not only the officer was rude but he had substantialily damaged the name of the Ministry of Education.  

Instead of asking the teachers to be grateful, the government should be thankful for their contribution to the nation.

To add insult to injury, the change was made without any prior consultation with the teachers.

It was recently reported that Deputy Education Minister Datuk Wee Ka Siong had revealed that about 7,000 temporary teachers were affected and that the move to restructure the contract of temporary teachers was because the Ministry had “insufficient funds”.

If truly the government is cash strapped, then the first thing it must do is for Ministers and Deputy Ministers to take pay cuts.

Wee‘s explanation is therefore unconvincing and in any case, insufficient funds cannot be a justification for introducing such unfair contract for the temporary teachers.

I urge the Ministry to review the unfair terms and to give appropriate opportunities for all the temporary teachers to be trained and be employed on a full term basis. 

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