Selangor's 100 days

I believe every Selangor citizens here have witnessed and gone through a hundred days with Selangor under the new government. Boy, our administration sure have many ups and downs. Lots of controversies dug up, lots of new rulings pledged by the government, now known at Pakatan Rakyat, with the Barisan Nasional Officers being the Opposition. It's a different twist for those staying in Selangor. With the 100th day for the Mentri Besar to rule over Selangor, here's a review on how he handles a few of Selangor's problems.

1) Balkis controversy.

Just to enlighten those in the dark, the Balkis is a sub-organisation of Bakti, which the organisation only covers the wives of Selangor's ministers and officials. In some ways, they were the wives' club. Its reason of existence is still unknown till now, as with all the other non-government organisations that spawned everywhere in Malaysia. It "claims" to be doing charity, how true is that we do not know and it didn't matter. What matters was that they transferred money out from their organisation with a total amount of RM10 million because they announced that they will dissolve after knowing the results of the General Election 2008. What more, the money will then be transferred back to Bakti, also known at "First Ladies Club", where the chairman was none other than our beloved Prime Minister's wife, also the First Lady of the country whichever way you see it.

I liked their way of approach of first stopping the transaction of that RM10 million before it flies to the federal monetary fund, then Selangor would also end up to be very poor state lacking of funds to continue developing Selangor even though it is already the most developed state in the country. Even though the Mentri Besar had put drastic action to prevent the money from flowing out, the response and the action taken after that are rather slow. It's not that we didn't want to have a follow up to the investigation, but for some reason the mainstream media decided to seal off reporting the news. What the hell? I say we should have the rights to know where did our money had gone through and why do they think they can just take away the allocation of budget first given to Selangor like that?

I wish to see more of the development about this case. Please do not take your time any longer to find out the cause. Because you will be questioned about that decision of yours. Remember that promise, transparency and clarity.


2) Bandar Mahkota Cheras controversy.

Hark, PUI! This is really the damnation of all controversies. It involves politicians, Federal Reserve Units (aka water spraying men), the angry people, Grand Saga Sdn Bhd, and also thugs. Look at the picture. Lots of bloodshed, lots of tears, lots of problematic issues featuring corruption and cronyism. People are angry, police were there to "instil discipline". Innocent victims arrested, or plummeted by thugs. Thugs and gangsters, they were hired. You'd think these thugs went and beat up the police? Heck no! They beat up any civillians trying to take down the barrier set up by that company, so that the citizens will use the toll instead. Such bastards. But the Mentri Besar, regardless of what he had tried to do, being the largest shareholder of the company, they had a big argument, the CEO of that company stomped out. That is a good sign, but then, they came back with thugs. I think most of the victims are now healed, but they will carry the trauma with them.

Is it really worth that much of money? To sacrifice your good bonds with the people, to make the whole nation know about your crony deeds? To be able to privatise roads, but unable to have ties with the people because it was all for the sake of "profits" and "business"?

This better have an end soon. I'm sure everyone is sick of unnecessary bloodshed.


3) Free water?

Will we or will we not get free water from now onwards? It remains as a question left unanswered. Although our Mentri Besar had announced that each household will enjoy the first 20 cubic metres of free water, many had objected to the decision, as they will not only encourage water wastage, but it also meant the Selangor government will have to subsidise water.

Personally I'm against it, not because of environmental reasons, but monetarily, we are not capable to provide subsidy to the residents that had the population of close to 7.2 million people. What more when the previous administration had wasted almost all the allocation for Selangor meant to be spend within the year, in 3 months? Before the Election was announced. Sounds to me like a conspiracy.

What I propose to the state government is that other than spending your time trying to dig out past crimes commited by the previous administration (which I bet had records dating back to 10 years ago. You want to make them admit to each and everyone of the crimes they commit? That's a waste of time and money), what you need to do is to try and stop building unnecessary roads (unless it was the Federal Government's idea. Typical) and instead garner enough money. I don't know what you could do with it, but free water is definitely not the way.

And by the way, unlike rumours that free water encourages wastage, I beg to differ. How much water can we waste anyway? How many of us would let kids simply just spray water anywhere? Just because it's free it doesn't mean it will encourage wastage. However, I suggest the government had accumulate enough money then you decide what to do.


The Selangor government may not seemed perfect even after the General Election, but granted, it was also very effective to make drastic actions. However, they should try to get to the bottom of some issues, instead of leaving it dangling it like that. Because, just because the citizens do not talk about it often that doesn't mean they've forgotten about it. We still need to know what is going on in the end.

But anyways, Happy 100 days. Hopefully more satisfying results will come up.