Government still led by an UMNO-ish PM

FMT - Nothing’s changed, says expert after DBKL appeals court decision favouring residents (extracts)

DBKL is now appealing a decision of the Court of Appeal which held that residents have a right to documents related to a development project

PETALING JAYA: A local government expert has slammed the Federal Territories ministry and City Hall (DBKL) over the latter’s decision to appeal a court’s decision that would grant Taman Tiara Titiwangsa residents access to important documents.

Derek Fernandez said prior to the May 9 polls, Pakatan Harapan MPs in Kuala Lumpur attacked the Barisan Nasional (BN) and the former FT minister after residents were denied access to critical reports and documents, such as the development impact proposal report and the traffic impact assessment report, among others.

He said this led to KL MPs and many KL residents to claim that they were denied a fair hearing when objecting to development projects.

Fernandez said subsequently, many KL MPs promised residents in the capital that if PH won, they would uphold principles that were “essential to competency, accountability and transparency”.

“This is the mantra PH repeatedly chanted when in the opposition, with their war cry of ‘Reformasi’ and ‘Ubah’ in governance,” he said in a statement.

Derek Fernandez

But DBKL, Fernandez said, is now appealing a decision of the Court of Appeal which held that residents have a right to such documents which were denied to them during the BN administration because of abuses by the previous administration.

“This shows clearly to KL residents that nothing has really changed and it is business as usual as far as the Federal Territories ministry and DBKL is concerned.”

YB Encik Hopeless 

Same old same old, but then what do you expect when the Pakatan government is led by a former UMNO Prime Minister who today still leads a racist party to which no Chinese or Indian can be a member of.

It's the same UMNO-ish authority ruling the nation, with the most draconian UMNO-ish PM ever still in the top chair.

And worse, this man has been on the defensive, fearing he would be replaced by someone more ultra than him, with the royals after his 6 o'clock. Thus he's encouraged to be even more Malay than Malays.