{"id":12003,"date":"2016-08-19T15:57:10","date_gmt":"2016-08-19T07:57:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/?p=12003"},"modified":"2016-08-19T17:31:20","modified_gmt":"2016-08-19T09:31:20","slug":"lo-to-chong-do-not-create-animosity-out-of-a-non-issue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/?p=12003","title":{"rendered":"Lo to Chong: do not create animosity out of a non-issue"},"content":{"rendered":"

State Assemblyman for Batu Kitang, Lo Khere Chiang is very unhappy with State\u00a0Assemblyman for Sentosa, Chong Chieng Jen, for creating animosity\u00a0between his council and the weekend hawkers at the MJC car park.<\/p>\n

Holding a press conference after inspecting a road at Taman Sri Tapang\u00a0yesterday, Lo who is also Chairman of MPP, said Chong has sinister\u00a0intention creating something out of nothing.<\/p>\n

MPP has cancelled off the service of Triple S Enterprise which had\u00a0collected a RM 5 fee from part of the 400 hawkers while another part\u00a0was collected by Federal Agriculture Marketing Authority (FAMA). The\u00a0council has also cancelled FAMA management.<\/p>\n

Chong had held a press conference with the company’s owner, Lieu\u00a0recently who alleged that MPP took over the collection of the RM5 fees\u00a0after the place was made vibrant by Liew. He had asked whether MPP\u00a0took over the control of the hawkers to sub contract it to another\u00a0company or to increase the rate.<\/p>\n

Lo said it was mischievous of Chong to make such an allegation as\u00a0after taking over since July, the council has yet to collect a cent\u00a0out of the hawkers. That decision was made not by me alone but by the\u00a0Standing committee in the monthly\u00a0council\u00a0meeting, he added.<\/p>\n

Pointing out that the council will not make life difficult for the\u00a0hawkers nor would it threatened their livelihood, Lo said all he\u00a0wanted was to ensure that they followed the basic rules put out – \u00a0which\u00a0included not dumping rubbish and parking indiscriminately and not\u00a0trading near the roadside.<\/p>\n

All I want, he added, was to maintain the place neatly and to create a\u00a0conducive place for the traders not forgetting the residents staying\u00a0nearby.<\/p>\n

He reasoned that the residents at the condominium, which is a stone\u00a0throw away and those staying in the\u00a0shop houses\u00a0have put up with the\u00a0congestion and traffic jams for the traders every Thursday and Friday.<\/p>\n

“They are tolerant and the traders, on their part must appreciate that\u00a0and ensure that the place is kept clean which will benefit everyone,”\u00a0he said.<\/p>\n

Lo added he was shocked when Chong alleged that MPP decision made was\u00a0out of\u00a0revenge\u00a0as some of the hawkers had openly supported former UPP\u00a0Batu Kawa Chairman who stood as an independent against SUPP President,\u00a0Senator Datuk Dr. Sim Kui Hian.<\/p>\n

“That was outrages of him to even think of that. As a YB, he should\u00a0not go around making irresponsible statements as it will show his\u00a0pettiness in dealing with the real issue,” said Lo.<\/p>\n

At the moment, the council is registering all the hawkers so that\u00a0allocation would be done properly and the hawkers can trade without\u00a0letting worrying of their space taken.<\/p>\n

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State Assemblyman for Batu Kitang, Lo Khere Chiang is very unhappy with State\u00a0Assemblyman for Sentosa, Chong Chieng Jen, for creating animosity\u00a0between his council and the weekend hawkers at the MJC car park. Holding a press conference after inspecting a road at Taman Sri Tapang\u00a0yesterday, Lo who is also Chairman of MPP, said Chong has sinister\u00a0intention creating something out of nothing. MPP has cancelled off the service of Triple S Enterprise which had\u00a0collected a RM 5 fee from part of the 400 hawkers while another part\u00a0was collected by Federal Agriculture MarketingRead More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12004,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12003"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12003"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12003\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12005,"href":"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12003\/revisions\/12005"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/12004"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12003"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12003"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12003"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}