Last Sunday 5 December 2010 saw the quiet demonstration staged by concerned Selangorians near the National Mosque and the old Railway Station against the heartless and exorbitant water tariff increases proposed by Syabas, a private company which took over the Selangor State's Water Authority a couple of years back.
Many people protested against the privatisation of the Selangor Water Authority then but it just went into deaf ears of the UMNO/BN putras who were more interested in lining their own pockets rather than trying to save for the low income rakyat.
In my view, the tariff rates are already high considering the muddy and filty water that comes out of our taps at home or office. In my office, I pay a flat rate of RM39.00 per month even though I use less than 3 units of water a month. The rate is indeed monstrously high and beyond any rationale.
Syabas has not perfomred a syabas duty to the people of Selangor. In the first instance, such essential utility should never be privatised.But because of greed, our Tun MM went ahead against all odds to get the water department privatised - this is indeed a great travesty of justice to the people of Selangor. Many of their children will not forget his great name even when he is gone for this sinister decision of his. He will not die in peace nor with a peace of mind.
The people of Selangor have every right to access the YDP for his assistance and attention to the great injustice against his subjects. But instead the peaceful demonstrators were greeted with water cannon and tear gas bombs being hurled at them. The commotion was caused and of course the blame was attributed to the opposition parties.
This high-handed action of the Federal Reserve Unit and Police Force ought to be condemned. If the people having a deeply-seated grievance cannot ventilate it in the public, what can they do? Keep mum, envelope it within his heart and pray that the problem will hope against hope go away the next day?
These are really guys with cow dung in their heads. They do not have brains and therefore cannot think between right and wrong. They have been reduced to humanoids.
The Selangor Government is not happy with the way Syabas is milking the people of Selangor. It wants to take back the water administration from the private company created by the UMNO/BN putras to enrich themselves.
If I may say so, all the GLCs and the privatised companies are now legally transformed into vehicles to siphon out their revenue for their own use. Through this means, they have milked billions of ringgits from the people of Malaysia.
Hence, the people of Malaysia must wake up and do their duty to vote wisely at the coming 13th general election. Every citizen who has a concern and love for the ccuntry must do his or her part in voting the UMNO/BN coalition out of the Parliament and State Assemblies.
We must effect a wind of change that is so tsunamic that it will efface the UMNO and MN from the surface of our motherland.
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