DOUBLE STANDARD terhadap rakyat dalam isu AIR

Kalau rumah rakyat lah.. mungkin dengan rumah tu sekali dah dirobohkannya.  Tapi bila perbadanan Putrajaya – ianya diAMPUNkan dan diMAAFkan. 

Tak ada sesiapa pun yang nak bertanggungjawab sebaliknya kontraktor pulak yang disalahkan.  Inilah sikap Malaysia Boleh yang diamalkan oleh penguasa yang haloba.  Ketika rakyat nak air percuma dipersusah-susahkan prosedurnya tetapi ketika penguasa menCURI air – dipersorok-sorokan pula kegiatannya.

Sepuluh lori alasan pun boleh beri selepas ini, tapi hakikatnya tetap nyata – sambungan tu ialah sambungan HARAM. 

Shahrul Peshawar, curi seringgit atau sejuta adalah sama (perbuatan mencuri)

SPAN jelaskan isu curi air

Oleh NORLIZA ABD. RAHMAN

PUTRAJAYA 24 Jun – Suruhanjaya Perkhidmatan Air Negara (SPAN) menjelaskan maklumat awal berhubung kes kecurian air menggunakan dua sambungan meter pukal di Presint 2 dekat Kementerian Kewangan di sini, dipercayai dilakukan oleh pihak kontraktor.

Ketua Bahagian Hal Ehwal Pengguna, Pemantauan dan Penguatkuasaan SPAN, Mohd. Ashwar Abdul Aziz berkata, sambungan meter itu dipasang semasa kawasan tersebut masih dalam pembinaan tanpa memaklumkan perkara itu kepada Perbadanan Putrajaya.

”Daripada penjelasan yang diberikan, SPAN telah meminta perbadanan agar membuka akaun bagi kedua-dua sambungan tersebut dan berurusan terus dengan Syarikat Bekalan Air Selangor Sdn. Bhd. (Syabas),” katanya kepada Utusan Malaysia di sini hari ini.

Menurut Mohd. Ashwar, suruhanjaya juga memberitahu Syabas bahawa sambungan tersebut tidak perlu dipotong.

Semalam, pengurusan Syabas mendedahkan kegiatan mencuri air yang didakwa dilakukan oleh Perbadanan Putrajaya dengan menggunakan dua unit tetiang meter pukal yang dipasang secara haram.

Difahamkan air tersebut disambung dari saluran injap sekat hala milik Syabas untuk kegunaan peniaga pasar tani, tandas awam sementara, siraman pokok dan air pancuran.

Bagaimanapun tuduhan itu disangkal oleh Presiden Perbadanan Putrajaya, Tan Sri Samsudin Osman yang menyatakan kerja-kerja pemasangan meter yang mengaitkan pihaknya dengan perbuatan itu mungkin dilakukan oleh pemaju yang memasangnya tanpa kebenaran.

Mengulas operasi Syabas yang mengesan kecurian air itu semalam, Mohd. Ashwar berkata, SPAN menerima aduan daripada syarikat itu bahawa terdapat sambungan paip ke saluran utama miliknya tanpa kebenaran di kawasan laman pejalan kaki di hadapan Dataran Putra menghadap bangunan Kementerian Kewangan.

”Pemeriksaan di lokasi mendapati terdapat kemungkinan sambungan meter pukal tersebut tidak mempunyai kebenaran kerana meter pukal di kedua-dua lokasi bukan kepunyaan Syabas.

”Dipercayai air daripada kedua-dua sambungan tersebut digunakan untuk tujuan penyiraman pokok-pokok di kawasan landskap Dataran Putra,” katanya.

Disedut dari Utusan Online:- http://www.utusan.com.my/utusan/info.asp?y=2008&dt=0625&pub=Utusan_Malaysia&sec=Muka_Hadapan&pg=mh_11.htm

Malaysia PM denies his deputy’s wife was involved in sensational killing of Mongolian woman

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia: Malaysia‘s prime minister denied Tuesday that his deputy’s wife was involved in the sensational killing of a young Mongolian woman, and said that action will be taken against the prominent blogger who made the allegation.

Blogger Raja Petra Raja Kamaruddin signed a sworn statement earlier this month, claiming he has information linking Deputy Prime Minister Najib Razak’s wife, Rosmah, to the October 2006 slaying of Altantuya Shaariibuu, a 28-year-old freelance translator and interpreter.

“Raja Petra’s actions are unacceptable. It is not right,” Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi told reporters Tuesday. “I don’t believe that Najib and Rosmah are involved.”

Raja Petra’s claim came on top of another article he wrote earlier this year in which he implied that Najib was involved in the slaying. He was charged with sedition in May for making that claim, but pleaded innocent to the charge. That trial is scheduled to start in October.

Najib and Rosmah have denied any role in Shaariibuu’s killing.

Prominent political analyst Abdul Razak Baginda, a close associate of Najib, is charged with abetting the murder. Two policemen are accused of killing her and destroying her body with explosives in a jungle clearing outside Kuala Lumpur. The three have been on trial since June 2007.

Abdullah said the attorney general has told him that Raja Petra is being investigated and “action will be taken against him.”

He also rejected Raja Petra’s allegation in the sworn statement that Malaysia’s military intelligence had given him a report about Rosmah’s alleged role.

Abdul Razak, who has top-level government contacts in addition to being close to Najib, has confessed in court to having an eight-month affair with Shaariibuu.

The prosecution contends Abdul Razak had her killed because she pestered him for money after he ended their affair. They say he used his connections to get the policemen to carry out the killing and to obtain the military-grade explosives that were used to destroy her body.

Some of Malaysia’s most popular blogs offer strongly anti-government commentaries and present themselves as a substitute for mainstream media, which are controlled by political parties or closely linked to them.

In March, a court ordered Raja Petra to pay 4 million ringgit (US$1.25 million) to the state-run Universiti Utara Malaysia and its vice chancellor for publishing an allegedly defamatory article. Raja Petra has refused to pay.

Quoted from AFP through Herald Tribune Asia Pacific http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2008/06/24/asia/AS-GEN-Malaysia-Mongolian-Murder.php# and modified with photos by Dunia Kemanusiaan

China quake death toll to ‘exceed 80,000’

BEIJING, China (CNN) — The death toll from last month’s massive earthquake in southwestern China is expected to exceed 80,000, state media reported Tuesday.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Officially 69,181 people are dead with another missing 18,498, according to authorities.

“Because it is presumed that the missing people are already dead, the total death toll of this disaster is likely to exceed 80,000,” said Vice Premier Hui Liangyu.

If all the missing are dead, then the death toll would top 87,000.

The magnitude 7.9 quake devastated Sichuan province and surrounding areas on May 12, leaving more than 5 million people homeless.

On Monday China reported it had fired 12 officials for dereliction of duty and misuse of earthquake relief.

Supervision Minister Ma Wen said her department had received 1,178 complaints involving officials’ response to the May 12 quake in Sichuan province and had dealt with more than 1,000 of them.

Administrative punishments were handed out to 43 officials, the most serious being removal from office, Ma said at a news conference. She didn’t specify when the officials had been fired.

ABSTRACTED by Dunia Kemanusiaan from CNN-ASIA

DONORS agree $242m for Palestinians

International donors at a conference on the Middle East in Berlin have committed $242m for security projects that they hope will help in creating a viable Palestinian state.           Condoleezza Rice, right, chats with Tzipi Livni at the conference in Berlin [EPA]   The money will be passed to the Palestinian Authority (PA) over the next three years to be spent on security measures such as more police stations and courthouses. The conference is being attended by more than 40 government delegation, including the Middle East Quartet of the US, the UN, the EU and Russia. The money comes out of $7.4bn already pledged by donors in Paris in December, a month after peace efforts in the area were relaunched in Annapolis in the US. Project list Condoleezza Rice, the US secretary of state, had urged donor countries at the opening of the conference to allocate uncommitted funds from their existing pledges to support the PA. She said: “Every link in what we call the chain of security must be intact and unbreakable. To… invest in a future state the Palestinians must have confidence that their police, courts, and penal system are dedicated to upholding the rule of law and respecting human rights.” The PA presented a list of projects that it needed help on to the conference. Tony Blair, the Quartet’s chief envoy, described the list as “proper and  comprehensive”. Blair said that a functioning criminal justice system was “fundamental for a two-state solution”. “This is not just about forces with guns, it’s about a proper functioning criminal justice system, it’s about courts, the prosecution service, the prison service, it’s about the whole  infrastructure that goes to make up the criminal justice system and a state. “There will never be a two-state solution just by people sitting in a room negotiating… a state will only be created when people take the action to create the reality that allows a state to be credible, credible for the Palestinians… credible for the  Israelis,” he said. Finances ‘critical’ Salam Fayyad, the Palestinian prime minister, told the conference that while better security conditions were vital for the creation of a Palestinian state, such improvements must be accompanied by other measures such as an immediate freeze on new Israeli settlements and the dismantling of Israeli checkpoints. He said: “There needs to be progress not just on the security front but also on the political side.” He also warned that the state of the PA’s public finances were “critical”. Tzipi Livni, Israel’s foreign minister, said that the vast majority of the Israeli population saw the need for a two-state solution but that they needed to see evidence that the eventual Palestinian nation would be a “democratic, responsible state”. “When we hand over the keys … we need to know that our neighbour is a partner for peace. I need to know what  is going on on the other side of the border,” she said. Violence condemned Others attending the conference included Amr  Mussa, the Arab League secretary-general, Javier Solana, the EU foreign policy chief, and 23 foreign  ministers. The conference is focused on helping the PA in the West Bank and does not cover the Gaza Strip, which has been controlled by Hamas since last year. Earlier, Al-Quds, the military wing of the Islamic Jihad movement, fired three rockets into southern Israel after Israeli troops killed two Palestinians in the West Bank city of Nablus. Following the violence, the Quartet said in a statement: “The Quartet urged that the calm be respected in full and expressed the hope that it would endure, and lead to improved security for Palestinians and Israelis alike, and a return to normal civilian life in Gaza.” abstracted by Dunia Kemanusiaan from http://english.aljazeera.net/news/europe/2008/06/2008624194825752231.html