RM30000 untuk kibarkan bendera BN/PBRS di Gunung Everest?

Beginikah caranya Barisan Nasional berkhidmat kepada rakyat? Apa yang rakyat dapat jika bendera parti dikibarkan di Gunung Everest? terbela kah nasib rakyat?.. atau senang kah hidup rakyat selepas bendera parti berjaya dipacak di puncak gunung? Saya amat bersetuju dengan pengkritik bahawa wang itu patut digunakan untuk membantu mangsa banjir atau keluarga miskin di Sabah terutamanya di kawasan PBRS. Seluruh rakyat negara ini tahu bahawa Sabah adalah negeri termiskin di Malaysia, jesteru Sabah memerlukan lebih banyak perhatian, bantuan atau perkhidmatan dari kerajaan dan juga parti politik seperti PBRS.

Kurup pertahankan misi itu kononnya wang itu datang dari penyumbang yang murah hati.. Bermakna, selama ini PBRS tidak perlu bergantung sepenuhnya dengan bantuan kerajaan terutamanya dari segi dana kerana parti itu sendiri mempunyai penderma yang sangat murah hati.. Tapi kenapa masih ada golongan tidak bernasib baik di kawasan beliau? Adakah objektif penubuhan PBRS hanya untuk mengumpul dana bagi membiayai kos promosi parti Barisan Nasional? Terdapat banyak cara untuk PBRS menaikkan imej parti tanpa perlu berbelanja besar hanya untuk mengibarkan bendera parti.

KOTA KINABALU: A RM30,000 flag-raising mission to Mount Everest organised by Parti Bersatu Rakyat Sabah (PBRS) has raised questions here if the party has lost touch with reality.

The party says the Mount Everest flags raising mission is another way of the party serving the people especially the younger generation but critics say the money could be better spent serving the less fortunate in the flood-hit district.

Joseph Kurup, the Minister in the Prime Minister’s Department and Pensiangan MP, rejected criticism that the RM30,000 or more being spent just for a mission to fly the Malaysian, Sabah, BN and PBRS flags on Mount Everest is money being wasted.

Critics have said the money would be better spent for assisting those victims of flood-hit Nabawan, one of state constituencies under his parliamentary seat.

“We want to show that our services to the rakyat are not just limited to what commonly done for them. We serve the rakyat especially those of our younger generation according to the current situation and changes in mindset,” Kurup said.

“So we are serving them accordingly, but in line with the ever-changing environment and requirement,” he told reporters after he officially flagged off the mission in a ceremony held at the party’s headquarters in Asia City here on Saturday.

Kurup also said the criticism should not have been raised because the money used for the mission has coming from generous contributors and raised by members of the mission.

“In terms of flood assistance, that is a different matter. As I understood it there were enough assistance provided for the flood victims concerned,” he said.

On that claims including by the oppositions that the flood victims in Sabah are not getting similar treatment in terms of assistance as those affected by flood in the Peninsular Malaysia where victims were provided with free electrical equipment and furniture on top of other kinds of assistance, he said: “I don’t know about that, but as far as I know the government has strive to the best of its ability to provide assistance to the flood victims.”

“In terms of the channelling of flood assistance to the victims, we see the assistance are not only provided by the Government but also from non-governmental organisations,” he said.

The mission was organised by the party’s Api-Api Division which would send eight of its supreme committee members and ordinary members to bring a customised flag (which have the said four flags imprinted on it) to Kathmandu, Nepal, on Mar 31 to hand it over to Sherpa Dorje Khatri who is scheduled to climb the mountain on Apr 4. – RR

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