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Government backbenchers to be made heads of government-linked companies?

Bridget Welsh

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Pas secretary-general Takiyuddin Hassan was quoted by Malaysiakini as saying that all MPs who do not currently hold positions in government will be appointed to positions in government-linked companies. BFM speaks to Bridget Welsh, honorary research associate at the University of Nottingham’s Asia Research Institute, about the relationship between such appointments and politics.

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Khoo Soo Hay
Khoo Soo Hay
18 Apr 2020 9.35am

One becomes a politician to serve the people. If elected he gets his State Assembly or Parliamentary allowance and other perks. One does not become a politician to take away another man’s job, who is more qualified, for example, to head a GLC. If by any chance, the politician has the qualification and experience to handle the job, it may just be all right. The criterion is experience. You can’t put a fox in a chicken farm. In the end there will be no chickens left. Our back door politicians are known to skim the fat off the GLC, examples, Felda, etc,. These politicians become politicians to make money for themselves, not for the people and the country. They only know how to ‘chari lubang’. The real scum of the country.

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