PM to visit Penang

GEORGE TOWN, Dec 5 – Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak will make several important announcements, including on the 1Malaysia People’s Housing programme (PR1MA) during his visit to Penang this Saturday.

Penang Umno Liaison Committee chairman Datuk Zainal Abidin Osman said Najib will make the announcements during the Promises Fulfilled Tour at Universiti Sains Malaysia.

He said more than 50,000 people were expected to attend the programme themed “People’s Housing” to be held at 10am.

Najib, who will be accompanied by his wife Datin Seri Rosmah Mansor, will go on a walkabout at the Bayan Baru Market before launching the Tour, he said here today.

Zainal Abidin added that Najib was later expected to join the Bayan Baru residents for lunch at the Umno office there.

He said Najib was also scheduled for a walkabout at the Tanjung Tokong area in the evening to survey the housing projects developed by Uda Holdings Bhd.

The various promises announced by the Barisan Nasional government for the people of Penang prior to this have been fulfilled, among them the widening of the Penang Bridge and Mengkuang Dam, despite the state being ruled by the DAP-PKR-PAS coalition, said Zainal Abidin.

“I’m confident that if the people of this state give Barisan Nasional the mandate to rule Penang at the coming general election, definitely much more will be provided for them,” he said.

Meanwhile, Tanjung Tokong Federal Village Security and Development Committee chairman Idris Bakar said Najib’s presence in the area will recall the nostalgic moment when Najib’s father, former prime minister Tun Abdul Razak Hussein visited the area in 1972.

He said the residents in the area were excited to meet the Prime Minister and hoped his presence would bring about positive changes in social development and community harmony.

“This is the moment the Tanjung Tokong residents have been waiting for and as a native of this area I warmly welcome his presence. In 1972, Datuk Seri Najib’s father who was the Prime Minister at the time, came here and after 40 years, Najib is coming,” he said. – Bernama

(Source: The Malaysian Insider)