My winding up speech at the Penang State Assembly.
As reported in The Star.
Non-politicians on board
THE state government has looked beyond the political party quota system to appoint members to the state Appeals Board, State Town and Country Planning and Housing Committee chairman Wong Hon Wai said.
He said the members comprised an engineer, surveyor, architect, lawyer and an academician.
“The previous administration appointed individuals to the board based on their political affiliations,” he said in his winding up speech at the state legislative assembly yesterday.
He said Penang High Court judge Datuk Abdul Rahim Uda and former Penang Industrial Court judge Siti Khadijah S. Hassan were recently appointed the board chairman and deputy chairman respectively.
Jagdeep Singh Deo (DAP – Datuk Keramat) quickly interjected to clarify that the board’s outgoing chairman Datuk Ho Mooi Ching, to his knowledge, was not involved in politics.
Datuk Arif Shah Omar Shah (BN – Seberang Jaya) claimed that the board’s previous members were all professionals, noting that they did not mix politics with their board duties.
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