Kadir To Johor Mb Explain What Happened To Pulau Kukup

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Veteran newsman A Kadir Jasin says Johor Menteri Besar Osman Sapian should consider resigning if he cannot explain what transpired. (Bernama pic)PETALING JAYA: Veteran newsman A Kadir Jasin today trained his guns on Johor Menteri Besar Osman Sapian over the de-gazetting of the Pulau Kukup national park, which has now been converted to sultanate land
Kadir said Osman must explain to the satisfaction of the people, who voted him in, on what transpired concerning Pulau Kukup
“If Osman can’t explain to the satisfaction of the people who voted him and PH in, seven months ago, then he should consider resigning,” he said in a blog post today
Johor state secretary Jaba Mohd Noah was reported to have said today that the Sultan of Johor, Sultan Ibrahim Sultan Iskandar, had decreed that Pulau Kukup, off Pontian, Johor, is to remain a national park after it becomes sultanate land
In a letter addressed to the director of the Johor land and mines office, Jaba said Pulau Kukup must be taken care of and monitored by the state government under the Johor Parks Corporation to become a tourism product of the state
Yesterday, Lawyers for Liberty slammed the Johor government for revoking the status of Pulau Kukup as a national park through a gazette in October
‘Waste of money’Kadir, who is a PPBM Supreme Council member, also continued his criticism of Kelantan’s decision to declare a public holiday on Sunday so people in the state can participate in the anti-ICERD (International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination) rally in Kuala Lumpur on Saturday
Kadir said that the weekend in Kelantan falls on Friday and Saturday, and the action by the east coast state amounted to “paying its civil servants to participate in the demonstration”
“The federal government should not be a party to it. The taxpayers must not be made to waste money on the Kelantan state civil servants,” he said
Kadir said that according to reports, without the subsidy from the federal government, the PAS government of Kelantan could not even pay the salary of its civil servants fully or on time
“In Islam, there isn’t such a thing as weekly holiday or Sabbath (like in Christianity and Judaism). Muslims are supposed to work hard, pay the zakat and be thankful to Allah
“But in increasingly ‘Arabic’ Malaysia, it seems that the people work very little and have more holidays than most non-Muslim countries,” he said
Kadir also had a message for all politicians, civil servants and businessmen who are being investigated or have already been charged
“You harvest what you sow. If you sow good deeds and you tend to your garden well, you will harvest a good crop
“But if you sowed bad seeds and you sold the subsidised fertilisers, your crop will wither and all that you have to harvest is weed

“And if you sowed the wind, you must be prepared to harvest the storm and the roiling seas,” he added. - FMT

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