Michael Tiang: DAP trying to gain political mileage on an accident

suppadmin | December 30, 2017

Michael Tiang, the Youth Central Chief for Sarawak United Peoples’ Party (SUPP) today released a press statement to condemn Democratic Action Party’s (DAP) motive of using the tragedy happened on 26 Dec whereby a motorcyclist killed after plunging into a deep hole by the roadsides, to gain political mileage.

“Once again, DAP went on news to play politics by seizing every opportunity to put a blame on Dr. Sim Kui Hian for everything that happened in Sarawak and demand Dr. Sim to bear responsibility for everything that goes wrong. This in fact is DAP a Malayan political party’s SOP (Standard Operating Procedure). For their political publicity, they could even stoop so low to use a tragedy of the motorcyclist to make frivolous allegations. They are bankrupt of ideas and issues now!”

“YB Chong Chieng Jen, a very seasoned State Assemblyman for over 10 years should have known so well that the hole at the flood mitigation construction site that killed the said motorcyclist is under DBKU (Kuching North City Commission) jurisdiction and Chong knows that DBKU is not under the purview of Dr. Sim’s Ministry of Local Government,” said Tiang in his statement. “And yet, being as irresponsible as usual, Chong chose to cling to his political play by making false allegations against Dr. Sim to hoodwink and mislead people at every opportunity available to DAP so that they can come and divide Sarawakians.”

”My party president Senator Datuk Dr. Sim Kui Hian, the minister for Local Government and Housing is now on his annual leave at overseas, otherwise he would be the first to be at the scene of the accident. He was very much saddened by the tragedy happened on the Boxing Day which caused the life of a motorcyclist. Dr. Sim had in fact sent our youth leaders to the accident scene at first instance to investigate the cause of the tragedy. Dr. Sim as a Local Government Minister had also repeatedly instructed those local councils under his purview to strictly adhere to the public safety guidelines for all council works at public places.”