This is the latest piece of news that has made me very, very mad.
Allowances to be continued [The Star]What. The. Hell.
SERI ISKANDAR: All village chiefs and village development and security committee members (JKKK) in Pakatan Rakyat-led states who have resigned from their posts will continue to get their allowances from the Federal Government.
Rural and Regional Development Minister Tan Sri Muhammad Muhammad Taib said the over 2,000 chiefs in Selangor, Perak, Kedah and Penang would be absorbed into a newly-formed committee under the ministry.
“Once they resign, they will be absorbed into the new committee with immediate effect and will continue to get their monthly allowances of RM400 and other miscellaneous allowances that are due to them.
“Their duties will be the same as usual and they will take care of the same villages, but they will now be working under the Federal Government,” he said yesterday after meeting Perak’s 817 village chiefs at the Kemas building here yesterday.
The proposal for the new committee, tipped to be named the Federal Development Coordinating Committee, would be submitted to the Cabinet for approval as soon as possible, he added.
Muhammad said federal projects in Pakatan Rakyat-ruled states would be handled directly through the Barisan Nasional-appointed village chiefs.
Asked about the state’s plan to let the villagers elect their new village chiefs, he said: “Let them (the state governments) have their own and we will have our own.”
On the possibility of the separate chiefs having overlapping duties, he said: “They wanted it this way.”
So far, he said the village chiefs of Selangor and Perak have resigned en bloc to show their support for the Barisan.
In Perak, a total of 817 village chiefs and 11,438 JKKK members have been absorbed into the ministry’s new committee.
Firstly, why do we need two village chiefs for one village?? Perform the same tasks under the same jurisdictions? And for this arrogant and childish Mat Taib I only have the urge to lock him in a room and gas him with seal farts. What does he mean by "They wanted it this way"? And why do we need village chiefs who work under the federal government instead of under the state, by the people, for the people?
Secondly, I have no idea how many so-called village chiefs or JKKK members there are. Just for calculation's sake, let's take the largest number provided by this report, i.e. 11,438 from Perak. Give each of them RM500, i.e. "monthly allowances of RM400 and other miscellaneous allowances due to them".
11,438 x RM500 = RM5,719,000.
Eh. Damn lot of money okay. And that's only PART of it. For doing nothing. OUR money. If I may borrow the tagline of a crap movie which I never bothered to see: "Whoever wins... we lose."
GERAM.
Aisehman also blogged about it before I did (and that is why he's my favourite political blogger *waveswaveswaves*). *click*
