槟城街头 Unity 美食节 is our 9月1日及2 日 strength pg 2 第7版 FREE buletin Competency Accountability Transparency http:www.facebook.com/buletinmutiara AUGUST 16 - 31 2017 http:www.facebook.com/cmlimguaneng State govt strongly behind Phee Story by Victor Seow government. In fact, he handled Law Suun Ting the matter in a correct manner,” Pix by Phee’s colleagues turned up in full force at night to show solidarity with him. Lim said. CHIEF Minister Lim Guan Eng “All that I can say is, if in- had expressed his complete deed the implementation of the confidence in his exco member policies by the state govern- Phee Boon Poh, who chairs the ment caused difficulties to some Welfare, Caring Society and people, I apologise on the state Environment committee, in government’s behalf. But at the spite of the raid carried out by end of the day, my question to the Malaysian Anti-Corruption the BN federal government is Commission (MACC) at the this, are you ready to shoulder latter’s Komtar Level 53 office the responsibility (since you on Aug 11. disagree with our current stand) Speaking to the media on and that we should take action Aug 15, the chief minister re- in demolishing all illegal struc- ferred to the allegations of cor- tures that have existed before ruption and investigations by 2008 when you were still in the MACC into the manner in power? Tens of thousands of which Phee had handled com- such illegal structures would plaints against an illegal fac- then need to be demolished,” tory in Kampung Sungai Lem- added the chief minister. bu. The factory in question, “The state government be- which is involved in carbon lieves in exco member Phee filter processing, has been in Boon Poh’s innocence. Why is operation on agricultural land this so? He holds no shares in inside an oil palm estate for the Sungai Lembu factory in more than a decade. question and he’s merely imple- menting the policies of the state * TURN TO PAGE 2 2 August 16 – 31, 2017 Unity is Malaysia’s pillar of strength ON August 18, the state-level each other. “Negaraku Sehati Sejiwa” pro- “It is important that people gramme was officiated by stay united and shun elements Chief Minister Lim Guan Eng. that stir up hatred, violence, In conjunction with the up- persecution and discrimination coming 60th independence and slander which indeed are day, some 200 personnel from used to attain personal inter- government as well as private ests,” he said at the event. agencies received the national Quoting the proverb which flag as a symbolic launch of the goes “United we stand, divided Merdeka month celebration. we fall” Lim said unity is the Lim in his speech urged country’s pillar of strength. everybody to be united and He added that unity is only combat poverty, corruption, meaningful if it is followed by extremism, racism and igno- economic progress for all, an rance. educated community, individu- “We are proud that we who als living in a dignified man- are a multi-racial and multi ner, world class infrastruc- -religion community can live tures, delivering the best of The Jalur Gemilang is waved in the spirit of Merdeka. peacefully, harmoniously and services and a government with tolerance due to the at- practising good governance. competition and also a super- Also present were Deputy members, heads of state and tribute of strong unity and the Various programmes such as bike convoy was held during Chief Minister I Datuk Mohd. federal departments and pri- mutual respect that we have for boria performances, coloring the launch. Rashid Hasnon, state exco vate agencies. Phee to sue media over RM2m claim * FROM PAGE 1 It was also common knowledge that Penanti as- semblymember Dr Norlela Ariffin had for the past two years been highlighting the operations of the said factory after receiving complaints from her constituents and she had even done so in the State Assembly. Following the Aug 11 raid and after giving his statement at the MACC office located along Jalan Sultan Ahmad Shah, Phee, 66, as well as a father and son pair, aged 70 and 37 respectively who own the factory, were subsequently arrested by the MACC and held under a five-day remand given by a magistrate’s court. Chow (third from right) enjoying the beauty of Sungai Ara with the DID team. The three of them, however, were released on Aug 14 after the High Court of Penang set aside the remand orders. ‘Adopt-a river’ programme in Penang Matters took a drastic turn when it was published SUNGAI Ara, which was given the Taman Linear to carry out JPS @ the Penang River and Marine Pollution in the mainstream media on Aug 21 that the MACC recognition as the cleanest river in Community activities. Taskforce Work Committee (estab- had frozen personal bank accounts belonging to Malaysia in 2015 as reported by the “The DID has upgraded the river at lished in 2014), has come up with Phee which allegedly have a total combined amount Department of Environment (DOE), an estimated cost of RM45,000 pro- various structural and non-structural of RM2 million. has been adopted by the Department vided by the state government. initiatives to address issues on pollu- “I have not been served with any notice by MACC of Irrigation and Drainage (DID) of “This upgrading work involved tion as well as to raise public aware- that my personal bank accounts have been frozen. Southwest District (JPSPP) this year dredging, stepping zone construction ness. When my lawyer RSN Rayer, requested to meet with under the ‘adopt-a river’ programme. and strengthening the river bank in ‘’Nature-based concepts are applied the MACC officers today, to get my personal effects, Local Government, Traffic Man- order to make it comfortable for resi- in river conservation work to encour- MACC told Rayer that they could not see me today agement and Flood Mitigation exco dents as well as visitors,” he said dur- age residents and users of the park to but only meet me on another day,” Phee said in his Chow Kon Yeow said starting from ing his visit to the site on Aug 17. appreciate the value of flora and fauna press statement on the same day he returned to work this year in order to safeguard the riv- Chow, together with DID South around it. on Aug 21. ers in Penang, DID in each district are West District engineer Haslinda Mo- “Hopefully this can open the minds “I do not have RM 2 million as reported in these required to carry out “adopt-a river” hamad Hamran and her team, visited of the community to keep the river personal bank accounts. I will be filing a defamation programmes which also includes the the park which has been upgraded. clean as it is a shared responsibility,” suit against these Barisan Nasional controlled news- involvement of the local communities Also present was deputy chairman he said. papers from the Malay, English and Chinese press together with government agencies. of Desa Ria Sungai Ara Residents As- Meanwhile. it was learned that, out to destroy my reputation and integrity as well “This year, DID of Southwest Dis- sociation, Eric Chee. Sungai Mati was adopted for the as tarnish the clean image of the Pakatan Harapan trict has adopted Sungai Ara located in According to Chow, DID, through Northeast region. Penang state government,” he said. August 16 – 31, 2017 3 State committed to provide affordable housing THE state government is commit- 1999-2007,” Lim said in his speech ted in building affordable housing at the event. for the people, Chief Minister Lim “The state government will Guan Eng said after officiating the continue to ensure various afford- “Affordable Housing Expo” at able housing projects ranging from Queensbay Mall on Aug 12. RM42,000 to RM300,000 are Due to the overwhelming re- made available to Penangites,” he sponse to the previous affordable said. housing expo which was held at “Here in Penang we have main- Prangin Mall, the expo is held tained the price for low cost hous- again this year for the second time. ing at RM 42,000 and 72,500 for “Since 2014, a total of ‘10 Mis- low medium cost. sion Home-Possible’ roadshows “Whereas in other states,it has Eager house buyers visiting the expo. (an initiative by the Penang State increased to RM 60,000 (Low 27,230 units of affordable housing Jagdeep also urged the federal tificate of Completion and Compli- Housing Department) have been cost) and RM100,000(Low me- (RM42,000-RM 300,000) to be government to deliver the afforda- ance (CCC) for such Affordable conducted. dium cost) respectively,” said Lim delivered to Penangites. ble housing projects to Penangites. Housing Type ‘A’ and ‘B’ (low and “A total of 21,535 units of af- during the speech at the event. Jagdeep also questioned the “These are the correct figures low medium cost). fordable housing (low and low Meanwhile, exco for Housing federal government on the 1 Ma- obtained directly from both our “I call upon the federal govern- medium cost) have been built from and Town & Country Planning laysia People’s Housing Program local authorities, namely MBPP ment to buck up in delivering the 2008 until May 2017, in compari- Jagdeep Singh said in the pipeline (PR1MA) in Penang as to date, not and MPSP, which have issued Oc- affordable housing projects to son to the 5,154 units built from there are 17 projects with some even a single unit has been built.