{"id":18477,"date":"2021-01-05T11:30:07","date_gmt":"2021-01-05T03:30:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/?p=18477"},"modified":"2021-01-05T15:24:48","modified_gmt":"2021-01-05T07:24:48","slug":"what-is-pn-doing-about-the-potholes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/what-is-pn-doing-about-the-potholes\/","title":{"rendered":"What is PN doing about the potholes?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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There has been another avoidable death in Malaysia, when  a 31-year-old Grab Food  delivery rider  in Mutiara Damansara hit a pothole at Jalan PJU 7\/2 yesterday, causing him to lose control of his bike before crashing on the side of the road.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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A 31 year old delivery food rider died instantly when he crashed into a pothole in Klang Valley. <\/em><\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The previous morning, a 75-year-old man was found dead at the site of a motor-cycle accident linked to a pothole along Jalan Tengah in Kuala Lumpur.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Two avoidable tragedies in a span of two days. <\/em><\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

How many in Malaysia had been killed by potholes in the country?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

How many more are to die because of potholes before the authorities take firm action to fulfil the pledge of \u201cno potholes\u201d on public roads in Malaysia, made by the Public Works Department (JKK) in 2016?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In countries where there public integrity is taken seriously, the Works Minister who has responsibility over the Public Works Department would have resigned over the failure to honour the pledge of \u201cno potholes\u201d on public roads in Malaysia, made by the Public Works Department (JKR) in 2016.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Activist Lando Zawawi questions the zero pothole promise made by the government in 2016? <\/em><\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Can the Minister for Works, Fadillah Yusof, who was BN Minister for
Works for five years from 2013-2018 and has a second stint as Works Minister in the Perikatan Nasional Government from March 1 last year tell how many Malaysians had died because of potholes on public roads?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Fadhillah Yusof has held the position of Minister of Works from 2013 – 2018, then again in 2020 under Perikatan Nasional. <\/em><\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

In his New Year Eve Message, the Prime Minister, Tan Sri Muhyiddin spoke about the PN\u2019s government\u2019s five priorities, one of which is to \u201cstrengthen Malaysia\u2019s position on the world stage\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Is this the way \u2013 Malaysians dying because of accidents over potholes \u2013 to strengthen the country\u2019s position on the world stage?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Nov 7, 2020 – An Air Force personnel was killed when a lorry ran over him after he fell off his motorcycle while riding through a pool of water in an incident in Jalan Kuching, here, on Friday.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Malaysia is fast reduced to a joke in the world \u2013 with Malaysians dying because of kakistocracy in the country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The country has never been reduced to such a farcical state before.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Will the Muhyiddin Cabinet wake up  and bestir itself to launch an :\u201dOperation No Potholes\u201d to ensure that no more  Malaysians would die because of potholes in Malaysia?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Malaysia is notorious enough as a kleptocracy because of the  world-class 1MDB scandal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Malaysia is again  notorious  being the only country in the world during the Covid-19 pandemic operating  without an effective Minister of Health, who had incapacitated himself with a series of fiascos like \u201cwarm water cure for Covid-19\u201d, \u201c500 countries\u201d and \u201c15 states in Malaysia\u201d gaffes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Are Malaysians fated to have more kakistocratic Ministers?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As a first step in a \u201cOperation No Potholes\u201d, the government should pay the  families of victims of potholes in Malaysia an extra gratia payment as compensation as admission of the government\u2019s responsibility in failing to ensure no potholes on public roads in Malaysia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

 Lim Kit Siang<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

MP for Iskandar Puteri<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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There has been another avoidable death in Malaysia, when  a 31-year-old Grab Food  delivery rider  in Mutiara Damansara hit a pothole at Jalan PJU 7\/2 yesterday, causing him to lose control of his bike before crashing on the side of the road. The previous morning, a 75-year-old man was found dead at the site of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":18497,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[344],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18477","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weekly-highlights"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18477","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18477"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18477\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18498,"href":"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18477\/revisions\/18498"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18497"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}