No action on Ooi, yet

DAP disciplinary committee is to study comments made by Jelutong MP Jeff Ooi calling for the resignation of state executive councillor Wong Hon Wai.

Committee chairman Tan Kok Wai said he had not received any complaint yet on the matter and therefore could not give his comments.

I am not familiar with the case so I will need to study it thoroughly before making a comment, Tan said when contacted yesterday.

On Thursday, Ooi came under fire from Penang DAP chairman Chow Kon Yeow, who described the formers call for Wong to resign from his post as a demand that has gone overboard and crossed the line of decency.

Wong, a state executive councillor, had got into a spat with Ooi over an application list for low-cost houses in the state.

Wong was quoted in a Chinese daily as saying that Ooi had not provided supporting documents such as eviction orders when submitting the list of applicants.

Ooi, in turn, said he was never told that supporting documents were needed and called Wong a little Napoleon.

In BUTTERWORTH, Barisan Nasional information chief Datuk Dr Loga Bala Mohan said the state government has a duty to tell the public how many low-cost projects it has approved.

In GEORGE TOWN, Penang Wanita MCA questioned why not a single state Drainage and Irrigation Department (DID) project was given to Chinese contractors.

This is proof that despite the support from the Chinese for Penang Chief Minister Lim Guan Eng and the DAP, the interests of the community has been threatened after DAP came into power, said Tan in a recent press statement.

T! an said DAP should not curry favour among other races at the expense of the Chinese.

Meanwhile, Lim said that Tan was playing the race card.

I believe the Chinese people will not fall for it, he said.

Lim was speaking to reporters after meeting with Class F bumiputra contractors in Komtar yesterday.

During the meeting, he revealed that bumiputra contractors obtained more than 99% of the Public Works Department projects under state government allocations.

- The Star -