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| Najib says he has ‘never forgotten the deeds of civil servants’. |
The Barisan Nasional (BN) chairman also took a dig at Datuk Husam Musa as the PAS candidate for Putrajaya seeks to canvass votes from civil servants since his candidacy was announced last week.
“I have never forgotten the deeds of civil servants ... If you love me, help me soon,” Najib told a packed auditorium in The Everly hotel here as the crowd held up “I love PM” signs.
Najib was launching the 1 Malaysia civil servants housing project (PPA1M), which offers 10,336 units of 1,000 to 1,500 square feet housing priced between RM150,000 and RM300,000.
The project was criticised by Husam last night in his first major rally near the federal administrative capital for using the pricier land in Putrajaya rather than the neighbouring Bukit Damar in Dengkil.
“If in these last few days someone asks to have tea with us in the canteen, please be careful,” Najib said, referring to Husam who has been approaching civil servants in Putrajaya recently.
“This is not the issue of him being from ‘negeri ambo’ ... It’s about our country’s future,” he said, referring to “my state” in the Kelantan dialect.
Husam, who is leaving the safety of his PAS-run Kelantan for a federal seat in the May 5 polls, was reported to have observed that it was impossible for a civil servant, whether a support staff or an employee in the higher ranks, to afford a home in Putrajaya.
A flat costs between RM120,000 and RM150,000, while a double-storey linkhouse offered by the Barisan Nasional government is selling for between RM500,000 and RM750,000. A semi-detached house is priced between RM900,000 and RM1.8 million.
He was also reported to have observed that the size of some homes in the federal territory averaged between 750 square feet and 800 square feet and was not suitable for those with large families to raise their children.
Husam had previously offered to ease the home ownership woes of civil servants living in the pricey federal administrative capital by writing in to Chief Secretary to the Government Datuk Mohd Ali Hamsa to discuss his proposal to resolve the home-ownership woes besetting its workers.
Earlier this month, Najib had greeted over 3,000 retired civil servants as he asked the group to pool their strength in order to keep BN in Putrajaya.
The BN chairman believes that the pensioners’ votes are essential to counter a number of former high-ranking government officials who have joined PR in the past few months.
Malaysia’s bureaucracy is powered by some 1.3 million workers. Some 80,000 people live in Putrajaya, with 15,798 of them registered to vote.
(Source: The Malaysian Insider)
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