Part 1: Accountability, PR middle name?
- In the first part of my write up, I wrote on the Accountability which is the second component of PR motto. Today I will address the issue of competency which is the first of the three motto of PR. A competent government is a government that is able to run things efficiently and the effect can be felt when ordinary people is dealing with the various state government agencies. Both the Penang and Selangor government claims that they are competent. Maybe both governments should commission an independent audit to look into this matter and present it the stakeholder i.e. the rakyat on the differences in competency before and after 2008. At the same time we must take note that the AG has given very good rating to both the government.
- Before anyone accuses me of being UMNO lap dog for attacking PR, please take note that my opinion has always been that people interest should be the centre stage of any political battle. I speak my mind out of love of the people and not about hatred against any PR representatives. It is an open secret that I don’t think very highly of Azmin Ali as an ADUN or MP based on my assessment where service to the people is concern. The way I see it, he is NATO i.e. No action, talk only which is no different than those loud peddlers in the night market. When people in dire straits need help, they don’t want to hear empty promises. They don’t like to hear; “saya akan arahkan MPAJ”, when clearly when the ADUN has no authority to “arah” or “saya akan pastikan” when the ADUN don’t explain on how he plans to “pastikan (ensure)”. The other thing that pissed me off when ADUN would say “saya akan desak..”. Desak? For god sake, when the ADUN is part of the government of the day and we don’t expect you to ‘desak”. The people are “terdesak” and they have been “mendesak”. We expect the ADUN to do something that is objective and clear. We live in the 21st century and the people no longer have appetite for such vague responses. They had enough of such responses before 308 and would expect a change after 308. Unfortunately this did not happen.
- Let us look at SSG. Since 308, the local council member has been elected from their political nominees. For the record they did not fulfilled their promises on local government election (which I accept their reasons for it but cannot accept their lack of creativity in handling the matter.) How many of us know that in several local council in Selangor, the state has failed to nominate people before the end of the term. In fact the current council member’s term has been extended. For 3 years in a row they have not been nominating council members on time. Is this a hallmark of a competent government? We all know that council members suppose to serve for a period of 12 months and subject to re-nomination. Why such a simple thing cannot be done? Already election cannot be done and simple thing like planning and coordination also cannot be done efficiently. Isn’t it embarrassing to acclaimed that one is competent when in actual fact it is not?
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