Wee hits back at DAP MP over cabotage fact-checking, says he’s wrong
Wee Ka Siong (left) at the debate on Tuesday with DAP secretary-general Lim Guan Eng.
PETALING JAYA: Transport minister Wee Ka Siong has hit back at an opposition MP’s claim that he had misled the public with inaccurate facts or by hiding some pertinent information during the recent live debate on the cabotage policy.
Wee said that the points raised by DAP’s Ong Kian Ming yesterday were “factually wrong and begs better fact-checking”.
He also advised Ong, a former deputy international trade and industry minister, to contact NTT Ltd directly so that the Japanese telecom giant could dispel the latter’s claims.
“If you still insist you are factually right, then I have no choice but to reveal the truth. Your call!” Wee said in a tweet.
Yesterday, Ong said that Wee, on several occasions, wanted to create the impression that global submarine cable company NTT Ltd was the only owner of the proposed Apricot undersea submarine cable project that was bypassing Malaysia.
But Ong said this was “grossly misleading” as there were a number of other shareholders in the project, including Google, Facebook, PLDT (Philippines’ largest telecommunications company), and Taiwanese telco, Chunghwa Telecom.
Claiming that Wee “conveniently left out” Facebook and Google, Ong said that it was because these two tech giants were part of a group of companies, both local and international, which sent two letters to former prime minister Muhyiddin Yassin and one letter to Prime Minister Ismail Sabri Yaakob asking for Wee’s cabotage policy to be set aside.
Ong also said that these companies wanted the return of former transport minister Loke Siew Fook’s cabotage exemption policy on undersea submarine cable repairs.
The Bangi MP had also corrected Wee on Yoshio Sato’s designation at NTT, saying Sato was only a manager and not the vice-president as claimed.
He said that it was also wrong for Wee to claim that Sato was consulting on the “Intra-Asia Express Cable Project” as the latter was no longer with NTT.
According to Ong, Sato had left NTT to set up his own Singapore-registered company called Orient Link Pte Ltd.
In a prompt response to Wee’s tweet, Ong said he stands by his comments and threw the challenge back to the MCA president to prove otherwise.
“Any self-respecting minister would want to reveal the ‘truth’ to debunk my fact-checking and to clear his name. I stand by all of what I said on Twitter and in my press statement yesterday.
“Please show the Malaysian people that I was wrong, if you have the so-called ‘real facts’,” he said in a tweet this morning.
PETALING JAYA: Transport minister Wee Ka Siong has hit back at an opposition MP’s claim that he had misled the public with inaccurate facts or by hiding some pertinent information during the recent live debate on the cabotage policy.
Wee said that the points raised by DAP’s Ong Kian Ming yesterday were “factually wrong and begs better fact-checking”.
He also advised Ong, a former deputy international trade and industry minister, to contact NTT Ltd directly so that the Japanese telecom giant could dispel the latter’s claims.
“If you still insist you are factually right, then I have no choice but to reveal the truth. Your call!” Wee said in a tweet.
Yesterday, Ong said that Wee, on several occasions, wanted to create the impression that global submarine cable company NTT Ltd was the only owner of the proposed Apricot undersea submarine cable project that was bypassing Malaysia.
But Ong said this was “grossly misleading” as there were a number of other shareholders in the project, including Google, Facebook, PLDT (Philippines’ largest telecommunications company), and Taiwanese telco, Chunghwa Telecom.
Claiming that Wee “conveniently left out” Facebook and Google, Ong said that it was because these two tech giants were part of a group of companies, both local and international, which sent two letters to former prime minister Muhyiddin Yassin and one letter to Prime Minister Ismail Sabri Yaakob asking for Wee’s cabotage policy to be set aside.
Ong also said that these companies wanted the return of former transport minister Loke Siew Fook’s cabotage exemption policy on undersea submarine cable repairs.
The Bangi MP had also corrected Wee on Yoshio Sato’s designation at NTT, saying Sato was only a manager and not the vice-president as claimed.
He said that it was also wrong for Wee to claim that Sato was consulting on the “Intra-Asia Express Cable Project” as the latter was no longer with NTT.
According to Ong, Sato had left NTT to set up his own Singapore-registered company called Orient Link Pte Ltd.
In a prompt response to Wee’s tweet, Ong said he stands by his comments and threw the challenge back to the MCA president to prove otherwise.
“Any self-respecting minister would want to reveal the ‘truth’ to debunk my fact-checking and to clear his name. I stand by all of what I said on Twitter and in my press statement yesterday.
“Please show the Malaysian people that I was wrong, if you have the so-called ‘real facts’,” he said in a tweet this morning.
Aiyah Wee KHAT Siong why so dramatic drama queen...just answer the 5 questions lah.....and why only talk about NTT, NTT, NTT....? They are only one of 5 companies involved with Apricot project....the others include Google and Facebook....why you never show any video with them....ha ha ha....reveal lah the letters they wrote to the PMs......
ReplyDeleteAnd now it is confirmed Apricot project DOES NOT land anywhere in Malaysia, we have ALREADY LOST THIS opportunity, so now Wee KHAT Siong try to divert attention to another future project, which is still unconfirmed, NTT is waiting for Wee KHAT Siong's "Big Help" (You Help Me I Help You....? ha ha ha) for it's success.
And BTW any proposed landing in Sabah and Sarawak is of little value to us. We need landing in Malaya, where most of the internet traffic is. All NTT wants is cabotage exemption from Wee KHAT Siong, because the cable runs through our territorial waters, in return they "offer" us an unnecessary landing in Kuching; for Malaya the landing will be going through Singapore, they don't need another one. Wee KHAT Siong is so stoopid it baffles me. The video that was shown with NTT is purely a sales pitch by them. Nothing is confirmed.
If you still insist you are factually right, then I have no choice but to reveal the truth. Your call!” Wee said in a tweet.
ReplyDeletewhat kind of a dumb ass statement is that, is he trying to hide something, of course it is the truth we want, just reveal the whole truth
One is a PhD from Duke University and Masters from Cambridge.
ReplyDeleteThe other one has a PhD in Ampu-ing for bread crumbs.