地方議員不民選之後遺症 又一例證
Another illustration, a sequela found where the local councillors are not elected by the people.
In accordance with the bombarded made by the Miri City councillors, “city councillors are not entitled to receive any salary, they can only obtain a subsidy of RM50 for each meeting, not more than 7 times a month for the maximum total of RM350. In addition, city councillor has to care about his /her own work, family, association and political party, may say doing several things at the same time are lack of techniques”.
Fong said, because of these, you have your own work, family, association and political party, you are lack of techniques and turned out to be helpless in serving the people. Therefore, we as general public deemed that local councilors should be elected by the people, we then only can choose a capable and zealous councilors to serve the people well.
Fong pointed out that not only in Miri but also other place, a lot of the city councillors take the government project, use the post of him/herself as a councillor to obtain individual related benefit, this is a fact which is well-known by the public. Whereas some city councillors are the big employer/boss, or take the post of the high executive level who entitles for high salary in certain organisation, should they care about the only RM350? Many city councillors just want to hang a title "councillor " for themselves only, How many local councillors really want to serve and contribute him/herself to work as a councillor? Presently, city councillors are used as the tool in which the ruler party used a reward for those who angkat kaki for the party. This has totally lost the value to be as a local councillor.
Local council should belong to all of the people, but not for certain political parties, Today’s city council is just like Supp’s or BN city council, only the members of Supp, BN are allowed to become the councillors. Fong interrogates the city council about the assessment fees from non Supp’s and BN supporter, won’t you accept their payment? Taxes are collected from all the people, then, why can’t the city councillors be elected by the people too? Let all the capable people, regardless of any political parties can be elected as the councillor to supervise the operation of the local parliament, and to eradicate all the corrupt practices?
根據當地居民說,在迫邁再也4-7巷的巷口的水溝蓋,已經被偷有一年時間了。既然市政局有27位議員,每個地區都有市議員領養,那為何一個水溝蓋丟了一年了,為何沒有一位議員出來幫助他們講話?
針對美里市議員集體砲轟的文告指,“市議員沒有薪水可領,僅能獲得開會津貼每次50令吉,每月不超過七次350令吉。此外,市議員也有本身的工作、家庭、社團和政黨要關心,可說分身乏術”。
房保德說:“就是因為如此,你們有本身的工作、家庭、社團和政黨,已經讓你們分身乏術無能為力為民服務了。所以我們才認為地方議員需要民選,才能選出能幹、不會分身乏術,有時間和熱忱為民服務的議員來。”
房保德則指出在全砂有許多市議員拿工程,利用市議員職務之便得到個人的相關利益,己經是一個眾所周知的事實了。有些市議員本身則為大老板,或在某些機構出任高職領高薪,這些市議員怎麼會把區區350令吉放在眼裡?也有很多市議員只是要掛個“市議員”的名堂而已,有多少個地方議員真真的是為了要為地方服務而當議員的?現在的市議員都被用來作為酬庸的工具,己經失去了地方議員的意義了!
地方議會應是屬於全民的議會,而不是某個政黨或某些政黨的。今天的市政局就好像是人聯黨國陣的市政局一樣,只有人聯黨國陣的人才可以當議員。房保德質問市政局非人聯黨國陣人民的門牌稅,你就不收了嗎?收稅就懂得向全民來收,那為何市議員就不可以由全民來選,讓所有有能力的人,不分黨派的都可以來當議員?來監督地方議會的運作,以杜絕貪污濫權?