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Published: Saturday October 31, 2009 MYT 11:30:00 AM

Gerakan attacks Lim on Penang investment


KUALA LUMPUR: Penang Chief Minister Lim Guan Eng has come under attack by Gerakan for turning down a RM30bil foreign investment because he “could not commit 1,000 engineers” in the state.

Gerakan Economy Bureau head Wan Sun Keong said Lim should have spoken to the Human Resources Ministry and the Institute of Engineers before coming to such a conclusion.

“The institute has said that it has at least 25,000 members while each year, both our country’s public and private universities produce at least 6,000 engineering graduates.

“We are angry that he has decided to turn down the investment by giving such a flimsy excuse,” he told reporters on the sidelines of the National Delegates Conference here Saturday.

Lim was reported in a Chinese daily to have said in Parliament recently that the Penang government had to turn down the investment because it could not “commit to having 1,000 engineers” in the state.

Earlier, youth members attending the conference also held up a banner criticising Lim as “Nonsense CM.”

Wan said Lim’s decision had not gone down well with people in Penang, who were lamenting the fact that the latter had just simply “let go” of such investment.

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