BR1M PROGRAM UNDER FIRE FROM PUBLIC

QUEUE.... People queue up for the BR1M in Papar District office.

THE GOVERNMENT is dishing out RM500 to the people in Malaysia and due to the bad application procedure, qualifying check and distribution of the money had created great unhappiness amount the people in Malaysia especially in Sabah.

There is great hope when the government announced the distribution of the RM500, especially those who needed the money for the Chinese New Year festival.

The people who had applied and waited for the approval, and now they are very disappointed to find that their names were not listed. They said they are qualified and eligible, but why other people richer than them can get the money, and they are not being given.

They said they have wasted time in queuing up to submit their application forms and queuing up to check whether their names are listed and approved, but all these were a waste of time. Their disappointment is heavy and unimaginable.

The KK MP Hiew King Cheu had gone to many distribution centres and heard many complaints about the bad ways that the government is handling this BR1M money. They all felt not only disappointed by also on how the government is carrying out this distribution of the people’s money.

The MP said that the government is not having a proper application procedure, approval criteria, and distribution system on the BR1M money. This is proven by the heavy grouses from the people now, and furthermore many eligible did not even have the chance to fill in their forms. They all said it is done purposely in a short time for not allowing more people to get the RM500.

The government is not having the intention for everyone who is eligible to take the money. They just want to pull a quick one, do or without, just splash the money and done with it. This is merely taking the people for a ride, and had made the people feeling angry.

The other question facing us now is where and how did the government get the RM3 Billion to be distributed to the people who had applied. The said amount was not even in the national coffer, and it is believed that the government had to borrow the money from else way in order to pay to the people. Can the country pay out this huge sum of money to the people, while the country is having a national debts of nearing RM500 billions?

If the RM500 BR1M money put together with the RM100 cash and the RM200 school book vouchers for the students, definitely this total amount will be very big. This only indicated that the BN government is throwing the people’s money out at one go and trying to empty the national coffer.

What is their real intention and motive behind all these? Is it for the benefit of the people or are they carrying a plot to attract votes from the people? Will the BN succeed in doing this? The people will be the best judge.