Tham Weng Fatt the maverick & thorn in Penang DAP, was left out in the cold by his comrades in DAP. Tham Weng Fatt is the most well known local DAP leader in Penang.
It is not a surprise!!!
Even though, he is recovering well and is still doing his work as a councillor. His recent illness had presented an opportunity for his political enemies to finish him off.
It will not be that easy, he has the spirit of the Lone Ranger.
P.S: Many local NGOs will be crying fouls, the DAP Penang government had sliced the cake for itself and its political partners. The promise for bigger NGOs representation is conveniently forgotten.
Penang drops District Officers from local councils
Opalyn Mok
GEORGE TOWN (March 1, 2009) :
GEORGE TOWN (March 1, 2009) :
In a departure from convention, the State Government has dropped the five District Officers (DO) from sitting in the two local councils.
Traditionally, the DOs are ex-officio members of the Penang Island Municipal Council (MPPP) and the Seberang Prai Municipal Council (MPSP).
The five DOs dropped are North-East District DO Azizi Zakaria and South West District DO Hasan Saad from the MPPP and Seberang Prai Utara (SPU) DO Mokhtar Mohd Jaip, Seberang Prai Tengah (SPT) DO Ruslan Yahaya and Seberang Prai Selatan (SPS) DO Jusni Ismail from the MPSP.
When contacted, local government committee chairman Chow Kon Yeow said there was no need for the DOs to be full fledged councillors because as DOs, some council matters will also be referred to them.
"They don't even attend the full council meeting and whether they are full fledged councillors or not, they are also involved in certain council matters," he said.
Chow added that having the DOs as councillors was a duplication of duties since as DOs they already have an avenue to handle certain council matters such as those involve land matters.
"We do not need them as councillors as they do not serve in the sense of political representatives in the areas," he said, adding that it was not in the Local Government Act that DOs must be councillors.
The five DOs were among 12 local councillors who have been dropped and are being replaced with new faces for the duration of March 1 until Dec 31.
The State Executive Council had on Friday approved the appointment of 13 new councillors and re-appointment of 35 local councillors who were retained.
Besides Azizi and Hasan, the five other MPPP councillors who were dropped are Tham Weng Fatt (DAP), Chua Kheng Ee (PKR), Abdul Halim Salleh (PAS), Francis Loh Kok Wah (Non-Governmental Organisation), Rizal Faris Mohideen Abdul Kader (NGO).
There are being replaced by Ong Ah Teong (DAP), Mohd Razali Haji Abdullah (PKR), Lim Boo Chang (PKR), Abdul Aziz Ismail (PAS), Asnah Hashim (PAS), Yasir Hafiz Munawar Ali (NGO) and Prof Mohd Zahry Shaikh Abdul Rahim.
The remaining 17 councillors were reappointed.
This means that in the MPPP, there will now be 10 councillors from DAP , eight from PKR, two from PAS and four from NGOs as compared to last year when there were 10 from DAP, seven from PKR, one from PAS, four from NGOs and two DOs.........
2 comments:
normal story.
in selangor, poor teng.
how can teresa hold THREE posts?
Seputeh MP, Kinrara ADUN + Senior Exco....
Seputeh is a really big constituency, same with Kinrara....
KL/Sel ppl are very demanding...
I dun see how she can do her job effectively, if she is gonna get lots of assistants might as well give the posts to them?
They are perceived as demi-god and demi-goddess.
For a while, unfulfilled wishes and promises will be forgiven or forgotten. Eventually the aura will wear off, it is a matter of time.
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