Friday

Leaking Roofs and Falling Ceilings

Last night’s forum on “Leaking Roofs and Falling Ceilings”, as expected, put all the blames on the Government for its policy of favouring Malay Contractors for such mishaps. Their contention was that if the Malay contractors had enough knowledge and skills of the industry then such lapses would not have happen. There are enough guidelines and byelaws to ensure almost perfect buildings. It is just a matter of implementation. But they don’t and had to pass it down the Ali Baba chain.

What used to be just “Ali Baba” is now taken over by “Ali, Ali, Ali Baba, Baba, Baba”. When there is enough government contracts to go by then everything would be fine. But now with fewer and fewer government contracts available the last Baba who would have to do the job, had to cut corners in order to survive, after each level of Alis and Babas had their cuts. Also with insufficient contracts to go round, only those with the right connections would be awarded even without going through a tender process. As a result, Chinese contractors who could relied on their bumi partners for contracts are now left in a lurch and had to look for new bumi partners to survive.

There was nothing spoken in defence of the government despite the presence of two MCA speakers. There was an overwhelming condemnation of the government’s unfair treatment of other races except the Malays in government contracts. There was even calls to vote wisely in the coming general election. But who is fooling who given the “gerrymandering way” of constituency demarcation.

One participant voiced his amazement that why “Leaking Roofs and Falling Ceilings” happened only in Pak Lah’s time, whereas in Tun Mahathir’s premiership, there was no such occurrence. Tony Pua replied that its was Tun Mahathir who planted such “seeds” and now these seeds had taken root.

2 comments:

Rockybru said...

Hello bro,
It irks me everytime someone passes the buck to the previous administration. It seems to be happening all the time. The AAB-powered media have been trying to transfer to blame to his predecessor from Day 1 while taking the credit for everything that works (including claiming that the IDR was his idea and nobody else's!). After the former PM's salvos, Abdullah's men in the Cabinet and in Umno (who were Mahathir's men, originally, including Abdullah himself) started to blame Dr M for all ills. Some said under Pak Lah there was more democracy as they can now speak their minds (and they blamed Mahathir for their inability to speak up previously!).

I wish Tony Pua does not emulate Pak Lah's editors and ministers. Passing the buck is the easiest thing to do, aside from talking cock. Let's be constructive. Why are the roofs leaking and the celings falling ever since Abdullah Ahmad took over as prime minister? The answer: vanishing quality control. We are not paying attention to quality anymore.

If you pass the buck and say the seeds of evil were planted during Dr M's time, someone will tell you that actually the seeds of those seeds were planted during Hussein's time or Razak's time or Tunku's. Or wattahack, blame the British for our leaking roofs and falling ceilings; they should not have left us to govern our country all by ourselves.

Thank you.

Rockybru said...

and bro, please change the time on your settings. it is 5.30pm now in malaysia!