Najib to Pua: Come after me, not Foon Yew school
Najib Razak (centre) with members of the Foon Yew High School management on a visit to the branch school at Bandar Seri Alam last week. (Najib Razak Facebook pic)
PETALING JAYA: Najib Razak has accused a DAP leader of “intimidation politics” by criticising a top Chinese school for allowing the former prime minister to visit the school and deliver a talk last week.
Najib said Tony Pua’s criticism of Foon Yew High School was “absolutely unbecoming” and reflected a malicious need to lambast a prestigious school. The attack was nothing more than an election ploy, he said.
PETALING JAYA: Najib Razak has accused a DAP leader of “intimidation politics” by criticising a top Chinese school for allowing the former prime minister to visit the school and deliver a talk last week.
Najib said Tony Pua’s criticism of Foon Yew High School was “absolutely unbecoming” and reflected a malicious need to lambast a prestigious school. The attack was nothing more than an election ploy, he said.
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“If you have a problem with me, come after me. Don’t go after school directors who have done a good job,” Najib said in a Facebook post tonight.
He questioned what gave Pua the right to judge the integrity of the board, which had turned the high school into Malaysia’s largest Chinese independent education institution with a 71-year history.
Pua is MP for Damansara and national publicity secretary of DAP.
Earlier today, he criticised the school board for allowing Najib to give a talk, saying it had “set the worst possible example for our children” by inviting a world-renowned kleptocrat.
Pua had also demanded that the school governors be sacked for their “complete lack of integrity”.
However, Najib said that it was he, while prime minister and education minister, who approved the development of the school’s campuses in Kulai and Bandar Seri Alam.
He decided to visit the Bandar Seri Alam branch campus last week to see for himself the development of the branch school. “Is it wrong for me to be asked to share a few words with their faculty and students and see how the school is doing after its opening last year?” he said.
He said Pua’s attack on the school smacked of DAP’s long-held frustrations at being unable to have its own people appointed to the board of one of Malaysia’s most revered institutions.
“Tony, continue to direct your energies and attention at me. But leave the school and its people alone to carry out their noble work.”
He questioned what gave Pua the right to judge the integrity of the board, which had turned the high school into Malaysia’s largest Chinese independent education institution with a 71-year history.
Pua is MP for Damansara and national publicity secretary of DAP.
Earlier today, he criticised the school board for allowing Najib to give a talk, saying it had “set the worst possible example for our children” by inviting a world-renowned kleptocrat.
Pua had also demanded that the school governors be sacked for their “complete lack of integrity”.
However, Najib said that it was he, while prime minister and education minister, who approved the development of the school’s campuses in Kulai and Bandar Seri Alam.
He decided to visit the Bandar Seri Alam branch campus last week to see for himself the development of the branch school. “Is it wrong for me to be asked to share a few words with their faculty and students and see how the school is doing after its opening last year?” he said.
He said Pua’s attack on the school smacked of DAP’s long-held frustrations at being unable to have its own people appointed to the board of one of Malaysia’s most revered institutions.
“Tony, continue to direct your energies and attention at me. But leave the school and its people alone to carry out their noble work.”
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kt comments:
TP has been notorious for his arrogant pompous ranting at especially Chinese entities - see my previous post of 08 Oct 2017 titled un-Chinese Tony Pua.
TP absolutely disgusts me.
Why did Foon Yew's board allow its school grounds to be politicised by inviting Najib right in the middle of the Johore State Election campaign ?
ReplyDeleteWould they be inviting Lim Guan Eng as well during this time ?
would Foon Yew invite a man who supported their construction or a man known to be hostile to vernacular colleges (just not to spook the Malays)
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