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Wednesday, February 22, 2023

Wee cracks up Dewan Rakyat with 3 eggs


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Wee cracks up Dewan Rakyat with 3 eggs



The Ayer Hitam MP caused a stir in Parliament when he brought the eggs to illustrate his point on the shortage of supply affecting the country.



Ayer Hitam MP Wee Ka Siong said the government should quickly resolve the shortage in supply of eggs so it will not be a problem during the coming Ramadan and Aidilfitri.


KUALA LUMPUR: Ayer Hitam MP Wee Ka Siong hogged the limelight in the Dewan Rakyat today by whipping out three eggs to illustrate his arguments during a debate.

Wee, who has frequently raised the egg supply issue, produced an egg imported from India, a locally produced egg, and an omega egg to compare their sizes and prices.

“In this context, I brought an egg from India which I bought for 50 sen. And here is a Malaysian egg (showing a locally produced egg) where the price is controlled at 45 sen. We can see the difference in size. If you notice, the egg from India, costing 50 sen, is smaller than the Malaysian egg. This is where it is lacking.

“If you talk about omega egg, kampung egg, it’s 76 sen. The rich can afford to buy but this is the source (showing Malaysian egg) for helping small and medium enterprises, especially the Malays who make cakes,” he said when interjecting agriculture and food security minister Mohamad Sabu during his winding up speech on the motion of thanks for the royal address.


Wee said the government should quickly resolve the egg supply issue so that the problem would not crop up during the coming Ramadan and Aidilfitri.


Mohamad said the government would continue giving subsidies to chicken breeders and egg producers until June before reviewing the need to maintain the subsidies.

He said the move to import eggs from India was a temporary measure to meet demand.

Mohamad said a Bumiputera egg producing company had told him that manpower shortage was among the factors affecting local production.

“This producer is capable of producing 500,000 eggs a day but it had to shut down one plant due to lack of workers, cutting its output to only 300,000 eggs.

“With the measures taken by the government from January to March to facilitate the entry of workers, we could see an increase in workers in this sector, including at the chicken farm mentioned earlier. So, the situation will improve,” he added.

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