Monday August 28, 2006
Give up PBA post, Dr Koh urged
BUKIT MERTAJAM: The Bukit Mertajam Umno division has called on Chief Minister Tan Sri Dr Koh Tsu Koon to give up the Penang Water Supply Corporation Sdn Bhd (PBA) chairman’s post to Umno.
Division chief Datuk Musa Sheikh Fadzir said Dr Koh had “snatched” the chairman’s post away from Umno’s Datuk Ahmad Saad, who was former Penanti assemblyman, in 1999.
“If Dr Koh is truly sincere in wanting to help the Malays progress, he should resign as PBA chairman and give it back to Umno,” he said at the Bukit Mertajam Umno delegates conference here yesterday.
Musa said there were only three Malays who presently held top positions in PBA.
He said that although 60% of the company employees were Malays, most of them were low-ranking officers.
“I also understand there are plans to set up subsidiaries under the PBA, which will be done in a similar manner like the Penang Development Corporation (PDC),” he said.
He said he hoped Deputy Chief Minister Datuk Seri Abdul Rashid Abdullah would reject any proposal to form subsidiaries and instead resolve the lack of high-ranking Malay officers in the company.
Deputy Health Minister Datuk Dr Abdul Latiff Ahmad, who opened the conference, said he sympathized with the Malays in Penang.
“I understand they do not want to end up becoming like the Malays in Singapore.”
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