Chong’s claim is malicious, baseless, says Fazzrudin

KUCHING: The Gabungan Parti Sarawak (GPS) government has never withhold its funds to assist the people affected by Covid-19, including petty traders and hawkers, said Tupong assemblyman Fazzrudin Abdul Rahman.

He said such claim is malicious, baseless and only serves to trivialise the state government’s efforts to keep the economy going amid the Covid19 pandemic.

“For GPS, it has continued to serve the people, be it the public servants, private sector workers, small businesses and the public in general at all times. This has been the practice throughout the five-year term of being elected as state government and will continue in the future.

“GPS, unlike the Pakatan Harapan (PH), does not subscribe to the notion of only showing up during the election season to champion the welfare of the people. This, to us, is not a seasonal thing as the people need to be assisted at all times,” he said in a statement yesterday.

Fazzrudin was commenting on an online news portal that reported Sarawak Democratic Action Party (DAP) chairman Chong Chieng Jen as claiming that the state government is withholding Covid-19 aid until closer to election.

He said such statement is uncalled for.

“What Chong is doing is down to a desperate attempt to win some semblance of support in leading up to the upcoming state election.

“In the lead up to the last general election, the DAP has showered the people of Sarawak with promises that if it were

For GPS, it has continued to serve the people, be it the public servants, private sector workers, small businesses and the public in general at all times. This has been the practice throughout the five-year term of being elected as state government and will continue in the future.

— Fazzrudin Abdul Rahman, Tupong assemblyman

elected as federal government, it will return 20 per cent oil royalty and 50 per cent of taxes collected to Sarawak,” he said.

Fazzrudin pointed out that they (PH) were the federal government for 22 months and the promise, until this day, has not materialised, causing many PH voters to pull their support away from the DAP, saying that Sarawakians will not fall for the same trick by the PH and DAP.

“Doling out RM100 to hawkers, as they did at a premises in i-Com Square on May 2 will not resolve their plight along with making empty promises of further assistances.

“The plight of the small business, hawkers and traders and the general public as a whole will only be fully addressed with the prompt recovery of the economy. This is what the state government is doing at this moment by managing the Covid19 pandemic situation and the vaccine rollout,” he said.