Najib now hear this all said and done NATIONAL INTERESTS should take precedence over Tengku Adnan Tengku Mansor

Tengku Adnan Tengku Mansor: Non-performing MCA MIC UMNO seats should go  has called on party leaders to relinquish their positions if they can no longer perform.Umno ALL BN leaders, all are useless, all are self seekers. is infested with leaders who overstay their welcome.For the big benefit their can continue to dig out of the nation most of them shamelessly stay on with low profile.Amongst them some dare to openly ask others to step down.We admire their thick skin.

hat party interests should take precedence over personal interests is the wrong reason for leader to step aside. NATIONAL INTERESTS should take precedence over party over both party and personal interests. The leaders should also ask themselves, seen from the national perspective, what they have contributed in the positions they have been holding, whether they are capable, whether they have unquestionable integrity, whether they are corrupt and corruptible, whether they work for cronies and families or the nation, that sort of positive virtues, qualities our people can look up to,respect, admire. If these questions are asked and answered truthfully, there will be none left in UMNO. That is not just my view alone.  the President of UMNO ,Tengku Adnan Tengku Manso his creation or creature  , if you like, said the party has no leaders of talent. dont destroy UMNO .Where do UMNOU go to? Present UMNO has dug a hole big enough to bury the whole blooming useless lot in!…starting with the corrupted Eunuch Tengku Adnan . Ku Nan wipe the stupid smile off your face…you are next in lineYou must lead by example. Ku nan , you hv dig enough , don’t be so greedy, you cannot bring it all to yr grave.Which effectively means all will have to go including you, you over fed fat cat. The people have not forgotten you from the ” correct, Correct, Correct Lingamgate  where you played a leading

Sooner rather than later, Tengku Adnan Tengku Mansor   have to buy your own flat, and it’ll probably have to be a DBKL flat, which is all that you will be able to afford,What’s  DBKLIt sounds grotty DBKL stands for  Dewan Bandar It’s a sort of government agency which provides flats for people who can’t afford accommodation constructed by private builders, which is far more expensive,

“Trouble is,  DBKL allots flats, and getting a flat  allotment is like winning a lottery. It would take forever for us to get one. So we’ll have to get a  flat on a POA,  said  wirawati said.

“What’s a POA?”  Nurul  had asked.”Power of attorney,”  wirawati translated.”Gosh, there’s an awful lot of things with initials in  DBKL that you’ve got to learn about,”  Nurul  had said.Less than eight months after we’d got to  Kuala Lumpur  we finally managed to locate a DBKL flat we could afford: a 2 ½ bedroom (the ½ bedroom was either a largish storeroom or smallish study), 2-bathroom, 2nd and 3rd floor duplex in Wangsa Maju  . The crony DBKL KU NAM  broker who found it for us was an affable  DBKL flatDBKL KU NAM  broker  had explained the deal to us. The cost of the flat  RM  150000 . had said, was a very good price for a flat in Wangsa Maju , which though it was still under construction, was already being called a ‘five-star’ colony.”That’s because it’s the only DBKL  colony in Kuala lumpur  that is all SFS. Besides, Ministers lives there,” DBKL KU NAM  broker had said.

“what is SFS  ’s initials?” Nurul had asked.

It had turned out that  SFS stood for Self Financing Scheme. People who’d been allotted flats in DBKL – as  DBKL KU NAM  broker said had to fork out the entire cost of the flat up front and not in installments on a construction-linked basis. The allottee of the flat we were buying has pay to  the crony of DBKL KU NAM  broker  to pay RM 150000.

Where were we to get RM 150000.  from? If there were no home loans from banks. If you wanted a home you had to come up with the money in one go and under your own steam.

“Half the money will have to be in blackK ,” DBKL KU NAM  broker  had said.

No. 2 sounded like something you did in the loo. But  had explained that No. 2, in this context, was black money. Cash.

“But I don’t have any No. 2,” I’d said. I didn’t. And still don’t, honest n. Or dumb, perhaps.”Just take cash out of your bank. Then your white money, or No. 1, will become the seller’s black money, or No. 2,”  had explained.

Nurul  and wirawati had made withdrawals from our respective provident funds, put the cheques in our bank accounts, withdrawn cash. I’d handed a battered old leather briefcase to Ashok. It contained RM300,000 in cash. Half the savings of a lifetime.

“I hope you’ll give me the briefcase back,” Nurulsaid.

“I’ll give you back much more. I’ll give you your own home,” he’d replied.

He’d been as good as his word.  Nurul and Wirawati had become the owners of a DBKL flat. Or rather, the shell of a flat.

“You’ll have to do woodwork and put Paloo in the windows,” Mr KU NAM do not know  wife no 1 ,2 or 3  had said.worked with Wirawatiin O&M. He had become our adviser on all matters relating to DBKL flats.

“Who’s Paloo?” had asked.

“Paloo. To put in the windows. To keep flies and rapisr out of your flat,” had said. “Just tell the shopkeeper you want Paloo.”

We’d asked the hardware merchant for Paloo. He gave us a roll of fine-gauge wire mesh. Paloo was ‘power loom’: power loom-produced wire mesh as distinct from hand-woven wire mesh.

“Nipp-als,” Beri had said. “You must change all your nipp-als.DBKL gives bad nipp-als. It’s very important to have good nipp-als.”

Wirawati had correctly translated nipp-als to mean nipples. Nipples were components of water taps. We’d changed all our nipples.

Finally, the flat was ready for us to move in. The first home we could call our own, not rented from someone else.

Lembah Pantai MP Nurul Izzah Anwar said nothing short of a resignation from the Federal Territories Minister and the Kuala Lumpur mayor would atone for the mismanagement of the assessment rate hike in the capital city.

She also said the issue of transparency and accountability on the rate hike is the latest example of what happens when a very powerful position is appointed rather than elected. (She was referring to the appointment of the Kuala Lumpur mayor.)

“They should all just resign. What is the point of having a federal territories ministry or a mayor’s office when they cannot manage?” Nurul Izzah said when met at a forum in Petaling Jaya last night.

She said the Kuala Lumpur City Council (DBKL) until today had not justified why the rates must be increased, especially since many of the council’s primary services such as sewage treatment and garbage collection had been taken over by private companies.Agendas have vote catching components. They have others that show the overall vision of a party. Both need to be spelt out well in terms of implementation. That sounds authentic, and even helps the party to actually start working on it. “Aadhaar” was one such grand scheme, that could later give all the benefits of a social security number. Nilekani left his chair at Infosys to join the government. He should have been given the publicity and exposure to express his plan to the nation. Being a corporate man he knows how to take contracts, meet client requirements and hit deadlines in time. The nation only knows how much time, talent and resources were wasted.

Reasonable housing, water, heating and cooling are now essential for any citizen if India needs all sections of its population to contribute to its growth. The voter should not believe any promise that does not have a phased out blue print and deadline. He has every right to ask methods of implementation and the presence of such talent. A slum housing policy, with affordable water and energy has to be spelt and the formula of economic viability shown. Just to list a flashy new idea without sufficient data to define the mode of implementation and economics should no longer be taken at face value. One example is the CP Airport-Metro. That would have made Delhi a very distinct city for travelers and businessmen. The polity needs to be explained, when we had the best talent in the world doing the whole Metro, why was this blue chip sub-project handed over to an inexperienced party. There was more than a fifty percent chance that there would be problems of co-ordination. What was lost was time, resources, but the extreme loss was the inability to put together a world class system.

“I have seen no improvement of City Hall’s services. So we are asking them what is the justification for such a hike?”, she said when asked about the apology from Federal Territories Minister Datuk Seri Tengku Adnan Tengku Mansor.

Tengku Adnan apologised yesterday to the public over confusion and discord created by the rate hike. He said the announcement could have been “better handled”.

He added that his officers should have sent letters instead of notices which made home and property owners very unhappy. This, he said, allowed Pakatan Rakyat MPs to take advantage of the situation.

Nurul Izzah said DBKL could have informed rate payers a year ago that it was studying the possibility of a rate hike instead of suddenly sending notices to residents and owners.

“The mayor should be able to plan one year ahead of time and anticipate whether he needs to inform residents that they (City Hall) are considering a rate hike.

“But instead residents got a notice in November saying that there will be a hike and that it will come into force in January.”

Despite Tengku Adnan’s apology, she said, residents would still have to deal with the fact that rates are going to go up next year.