{"id":23599,"date":"2018-12-29T13:43:41","date_gmt":"2018-12-29T05:43:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/?p=23599"},"modified":"2018-12-30T03:30:50","modified_gmt":"2018-12-29T19:30:50","slug":"lo-ask-chong-to-check-facts-before-talking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/?p=23599","title":{"rendered":"Lo ask Chong to check facts before talking"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Batu Kitang Assemblyman, Lo Khere Chiang asked\u00a0 MP Stampin, Chong\u00a0Chieng Jen not to make wild allegation about using his own money for\u00a0grass cutting at protocol roads when he should be going to ask his\u00a0boss, the Minister of Finance, YB Lim Guan Eng for the allocation for\u00a0grass cutting.<\/p>\n<p>Asking Chong who he was trying to fool, Lo said his party members have\u00a0seek clarification from Sarawak JKR department to make enquiries and\u00a0was told that the allocation from the Federal government was not in.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cChong kept pestering me to step down as Padawan Municipal council\u00a0Chairman. Why should I when I have served the people in MPP honestly\u00a0unlike Chong who has been misleading the public. I believe Chong\u00a0should step down as Deputy Minister for making misleading statement\u00a0that JKR Sarawak has overspend the money. I ask if YB Chong has any\u00a0interest at all for Sarawak and why he is siding Malaya to explain\u00a0every issue that has cropped up when it was the Federal grant that was\u00a0curtailed. It is time Chong stand with Sarawakians and demand that\u00a0Sarawak&#8217;s resources and rights under MA63 be returned to Sarawak\u00a0without any compromise as promised under their election manifesto,\u201d he\u00a0said.<\/p>\n<p>MPP&#8217;s assessment rate, said Lo was annually collected is around RM22\u00a0million of which the council\u00a0 has to pay salaries for 450 staff, grass\u00a0cutting\u00a0 in MPP areas, clear drains, sweep our roads and maintain our\u00a0drains. He wondered why Sarawak ratepayer&#8217;s money should be used tocut grass for our federal highway. This has always been the\u00a0responsibility of the federal government.<\/p>\n<p>Lo added that 15billion which is net profit from petroleum is siphoned\u00a0from Sarawak&#8217;s land and taken by Malaya every year and YB Chong has\u00a0the cheek to ask Sarawakians to come up with more money to cut grass\u00a0along our federal highway. Even with the RM 820mil provided by the\u00a0Federal government in previous years, it is barely enough to provide\u00a0adequate maintenance services for our Federal roads.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI deplored Chong for misleading the public into thinking cutting\u00a0grass for our federal highway is the responsibility of the council. YB\u00a0Chong,\u00a0 do not make wild allegations that make you look stupid. Get\u00a0your facts right,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_23600\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-23600\" style=\"width: 259px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/c11ede89-b837-4173-ad86-0f0a042cd3c5.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-23600\" alt=\"Lo khere chiang\" src=\"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/c11ede89-b837-4173-ad86-0f0a042cd3c5-259x300.jpg\" width=\"259\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/c11ede89-b837-4173-ad86-0f0a042cd3c5-259x300.jpg 259w, http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/c11ede89-b837-4173-ad86-0f0a042cd3c5.jpg 886w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 259px) 100vw, 259px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-23600\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lo khere chiang<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Batu Kitang Assemblyman, Lo Khere Chiang asked\u00a0 MP Stampin, Chong\u00a0Chieng Jen not to make wild allegation about using his own money for\u00a0grass cutting at protocol roads when he should be going to ask his\u00a0boss, the Minister of Finance, YB Lim Guan Eng for the allocation for\u00a0grass cutting. Asking Chong who he was trying to fool, Lo said his party members have\u00a0seek clarification from Sarawak JKR department to make enquiries and\u00a0was told that the allocation from the Federal government was not in. \u201cChong kept pestering me to step down as Padawan<a href=\"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/?p=23599\" class=\"read-more\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":23600,"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\/23599"}],"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=23599"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23599\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23601,"href":"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23599\/revisions\/23601"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/23600"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}