Focus on helping people affected by Covid-19 – MP
KUCHING: Politicians and those aspiring to become one should focus on helping the people amidst the Covid-19 pandemic, instead of indulging in constant politicking.
In making this call, Works Minister Datuk Seri Fadillah Yusof points out that what Malaysians need the most right now is for the economy to be restored and their lives to go back to normal after undergoing various stages of the Movement Control Orders (MCO).
“Those who want politics, stop first. Now is the time for us to work together in handling this economic and health crisis that we are facing amidst the Covid-19 pandemic.
“This is what the people need now; hence the government is focusing on helping the people who are struggling due to the pandemic,” he said in his opening remarks for the ‘Merdeka@ Komuniti’ event at Lorong Piala 3 of Taman Sukma in Petra Jaya here yesterday.
Adding on, Fadillah, who is Petra Jaya MP, called upon some 100 residents of Lorong Piala 3 to stay united and support the government, both at state and federal level, in its efforts to restore the economy.
Fadillah also said the state and federal governments were well aware of the financial hardship faced by many people due to the pandemic and in this regard, they had come up with various assistance programmes meant to help relieve the people of such burden.
“We are well aware of some businesses having to close down, and some people losing their jobs.
“Therefore we (state and federal governments) are focusing on restoring the economy and getting the people’s lives back to normal.
“However, we all must be united and help one another in facing these challenges,” he said, adding that the state and federal governments themselves had been facing challenges because as the economy declined, tax payments had also declined.
Moreover, he said Malaysia also faced certain challenges in exports, in that many countries were still closing their borders for trade.
“Therefore we have to find some creative solutions on how we can find incomes so that we can continue administering the country, and at the same time, helping the people and also sustaining all the developments that we have planned,” he said.
Meanwhile Assistant Minister in Chief Minister’s Department (Law, State-Federal Relations and Project Monitoring) Datuk Sharifah Hasidah Sayeed Aman Ghazali, who also attended the event, said in the spirit of unity, the people should support all the good efforts that the government had been doing to help the people.
“What is good, we would support; what needs to be improved, we would improve,” she said.