Yee is mute on other issues
KOTA KINABALU, June 23,
2010: Resource Development and Information Technology Minister Datuk Dr
Yee Moh Chai's silence on many issues is costing his constituents, said
former Gaya MP Datuk Philip Yong Chiew Lip.
Chiew Lip, who was also a former deputy president of Sabah Progressive
Party (SAPP) said prior to Parti Bersatu Sabah's readmission into the Barisan Nasional (BN), Yee had also been vocal on issues like the car
parking fee rate in the City before but until now there has been no
solution.
"Yee had asked people not to pay the parking bills but now there is no
solution? The people who did not pay the bills are being threatened with
legal action.
"But, when his office in Lintas was affected by the car parking fee
collector company's move to place a booth at the entrance and exit to
collect parking fee, he (Yee) went all the way to the State Cabinet to get
the parking fee booth to be removed.
"Many major issues affecting his constituents like the Queen Elizabeth
Hospital, crime or the special license to sell sugar have been ignored by
him," he said in a statement here Monday.
Chiew Lip also recalled that Yee had been so vociferous on the illegal
immigrant issue in Sabah that he had even organised a petition signing
drive at Gaya Street.
During the campaign, Yee displayed his outspokenness by arrogantly
'challenging' SAPP President Datuk Yong Teck Lee who was then the Likas
Assemblyman to sign the petition calling for a Royal Commission of Inquiry
on the illegal immigrant issue in Sabah.
In the Daily Express dated Oct 4, 1999, Yong a former Chief Minister and
was still in the BN had said that PBS politicians were trying to show that
they were more concerned than others on the matter.
Chiew Lip claimed that despite knowing the illegals, phantom voters and
illegal IC's issue were linked to Umno, Yee never said a word about it and
instead kept on blaming and attacking only SAPP.
"So we want to know why, Yee as the Api-Api assemblyman is now so silent
on the issues that affect many of his constituents but continue to blame
SAPP for it?" he asked. |
