- I have read the online news that quoted Noh Omar on the issue surrounding the NFC. The minister was saying among others that that the project is a success and there is nothing wrong with Minister children participating in the project. To show the strong background of the personality involved he even highlighted the glowing academic CV of Mohamad Salleh, the Executive Chairman.
- I agree that there is nothing wrong by giving the youngsters a chance to be involved in a cattle business. However I disagree that we can call it a success. By my assessment it is a total failure because it did not reduce our national dependency of meat imports. I would expect that after RM200 mill and after 5 years, there would be significant reduction of imports. Instead it continues to import cattle, causing the country to lose on foreign exchange and slaughter them locally.
- The way I see it is better to slaughter them in Australia and bring in the meat as that would be cheaper and logistically easier. The Gemas project did not bring value add to the nation. It only added 3 more youngsters into the cattle business. It did not reduce the nation meat import. It only gave RM200 mill to several kids to experiment.
- The issue is not about Shahrizat or her family. The issue is about the government. The government has wasted RM200 mill of direct funds at a subsidized cost. The money could have been used to develop small farmers livestock program instead of giving to one person. I would have given the money to 20,000 experienced livestock farmer with animals worth RM10, 000 (or 1 bull and 3 heifers). Within 5 years each farmer would have between 13 to 15 animals and the 20,000 farmers would have produced 300,000 animals. That is something that we can be proud off.
- The government must be made accountable. How can our Minister be proud of with spending RM200 mill and exposing 3 new graduates in cattle business and slaughtering about 5000 odd cattle as a measure of success? If I am the Minister I would be ashamed to give such a reply in Parliament because the ministry has failed. There is a Malay proverb that says, “menegakkan benang yang basah” and that exactly what Noh did today. To me this is embarrassing.
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200m for 8,000 cows over 3 years. do your maths. boy or boy. be a freaking minister. get your husband and “hole” family members to rear cows, chicken, ducks, maggots and whateevr. UMNO will throw you another 200m, err to rear whatever you want. success success success say the dont-irk-me-or-I-batch-you-up-in-my-kampung Minister.
we the folks of gemas are in dire need of employment,amat menyedihkan kerja saperti cowboys or cowherds tak ada untok kami disini.most of us here ada dua atau tiga ekor lembu ternakan sendiri,kenapa mereka tidak beri kami peluang bekerja,in fact most of the kampong people nearby are available and have hands on in cattle rearing.is it lembu australia dengan lembu kampong tak samakah cara peliharaanya?.whatever we rakyat felt cheated and being robbed in broad daylight.could not agreed less with what drrafick suggested that is give the opportunity to farmers who had bled their lives in this livestock rearing.indeed the rm200m is really a “cash cow”for sj and family.
Dear Dr. Rafick,
I believe, if the owners of MFC wants to succeed in the business, they have to be cows first and businessmen second. Does this sound logic?
“The issue is not about Shahrizat or her family.”
Sorry, Dr. Rafick, I don’t understand why you fail to see the governance and ethical aspects of this. Its more than the business and economic failure, which it is as well.
Maybe a change of names and the government involved will make this clearer.
Lets say the Selangor State government or PKNS awarded a multi-million ringgit project to a company which has Azmin Ali’s wife and young relatives on the board of directors .
Lets see…. how would your reaction would be ?
Theoretical, of course, I’m not aware of Pakatan Rakyat indulging in this sort of nonsense…yet.
“Lets see…. how would your reaction would be ?”
I think the reaction would be “The issue is not about Azmin Ali’s wife and young relatives. The issue is about the government.” and rafick is perfectly right
Kittykat
(1) You failed to grasp my views because I assumed you did not read all the 6 writeup on this subject.
(2) SJ and Family submitted their proposal. The government accept it! The outcome is a disaster because the government accepted such a ridiculous proposal. Therefore the government is liable.
doc.. you should try submitting a proposal to the govt. being a non connected small fry.. they scrutinize every single cent and ur competency. even if your idea is picked up they will put it to tender. which is a requirement when ur proposal is 50k and up
if we really investigate i am sure SJ and family’s inside manipulation will be proven… and they need to be punished for that
but at the same time…I get ur post.. instead of focusing on the politics of it all like rafizi (pitting nur izzah n sj)… we shud focus on putting the govt accountable.. i wonder what can we the small ppl do..
Any youngsters can be considered as successful if they were given RM200 mill to spend!
Yaah yeah, that youngster is successful but we rakyat are “suckassfool”
Dear Doc,
Most of the kampung folks would believe what Noh Omar had said. No kampung folks has seen 8,000 “cash cow” roaming the fields. Most of the hard core UMNO supporters would be believe the project is a success.
Sudah sembelih 5,000 ekor lembu dan masih ada lembu, itu sudah kira berjaya. Sebab masih ada lembu. Kalau sudah sembelih 5,000 ekor lembu, satu ekor pun tak nampak lagi, itu kira saya sudah kaya.
Quote: “The way I see it is better to slaughter them in Australia and bring in the meat as that would be cheaper and logistically easier.”
Yes, it is easier, cheaper and safer
The ONLY reason they brought over here to slaughter is to test out the keris on the Mat Salleh lembu. UMNO might want to introduce the keris as an efficient slaughtering tool. With that, all kampung folks can walk around with a keris in hand.
It is a National pride!
I hear the next project is to rear cock and chick, so we not only have “cash cow”, we will also have “cach cock” and “cash chick” to ensure our politician wealth of experties not going into waste.