Responding to the "National Supervisory Committee on Rare Earth Issues"
initiated by the MCA, Kuantan MP Fuziah Salleh has called on the party
to drop its act of fooling the people and
said the announcement on the setting up of the committee to address
the Lynas Advanced Material Plant (Lamp) issues by MCA deputy president
Liow Tiong Lai totally missed the real issues underlying public outcry
against the rare earth plant.
Fuziah (left) said in a statement issued late last night, "The
message is 'stop Lynas' and it is clearly not 'supervise Lamp'. By
setting up this 'supervisory committee', MCA is trying to show that they
are the champions of the rakyat, but while doing so, they made a fool
of the rakyat's intelligence and concerns regarding Lamp."
Fuziah (left) said in a statement issued late last night, "The
message is 'stop Lynas' and it is clearly not 'supervise Lamp'. By
setting up this 'supervisory committee', MCA is trying to show that they
are the champions of the rakyat, but while doing so, they made a fool
of the rakyat's intelligence and concerns regarding Lamp."
The PKR vice-president pointed out that Lynas had received approval and licence to build the plant from the BN government in early 2008, but the MCA, despite being one of the major component parties of the ruling coalition, had been silent then.
She said moreover, two MCA assemblypersons from Kuantan visited the mine site at Mt Weld in Australia in the middle of 2009 and they came back to declare that Lamp in Gebeng would be safe.
Fuziah querid, saying, "Why didn't MCA make a decision siding with the safety of the rakyat then? Why the sudden U-turn now, if not just as a political move to regain ground and support in Kuantan?"
She also questioned whether the setting up of the supervisory committee was merely a ploy to deceive the rakyat that MCA was doing something about the matter, saying, "Is MCA's ploy just to look good, without actually standing up for what the rakyat truly want? Will MCA ever have the guts to face up to Umno in the BN coalition and tell the government what the rakyat really want?"
She said moreover, two MCA assemblypersons from Kuantan visited the mine site at Mt Weld in Australia in the middle of 2009 and they came back to declare that Lamp in Gebeng would be safe.
Fuziah querid, saying, "Why didn't MCA make a decision siding with the safety of the rakyat then? Why the sudden U-turn now, if not just as a political move to regain ground and support in Kuantan?"
She also questioned whether the setting up of the supervisory committee was merely a ploy to deceive the rakyat that MCA was doing something about the matter, saying, "Is MCA's ploy just to look good, without actually standing up for what the rakyat truly want? Will MCA ever have the guts to face up to Umno in the BN coalition and tell the government what the rakyat really want?"
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