Mayor to look into clealiness woes at Segama – MCA KK

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KOTA KINABALU: MCA KK Women has expressed regret over how a 60-year-old woman was allegedly treated by DAP leaders and party members as reported by local newspapers yesterday.

According to its chief, Dr Pamela Yong, if this was indeed the case, it is completely against the virtue of the role of an elected group (in this case a Member of Parliament for Kota Kinabalu) to disregard, ridicule and threaten one of their constituents who took the opportunity, due to their presence at the time, to air some grievances on the state of cleanliness in Segama commercial centre.

“These representatives/members of the KK Member of Parliament or of DAP as a whole should have taken the comments, be it complaints of Madam Xu seriously, and should have assisted her in addressing her issues with the relevant authority,” Dr Yong said in a statement yesterday.

“For the marital status of Madam Xu to be raised as an issue, and a source of entertainment to this group, was most irrelevant and if anything, was done purely to embarrass the poor lady,” she pointed out.

According to Dr Yong, MCA KK division felt this display was disgraceful, and showed a side of DAP that seemingly has no interest in serving the people, to which they were given the mandate during the last election.

“Today, the MCA KK Division has met with Madam Xu, together with DBKK representatives to further understand her grievances, and to arrive at solutions for improvement.

“We have also spoken to Mayor Datuk Abidin Madingkir and he has promised to conduct a walkabout to assess the situation and will arrange a gotong royong as well as a once a-week clean up of the area concerned.

“He will also see to the eradication of the stray animals that are taking refuge and defecating in these stairwells.

“Datuk Mayor hopes to also engage and educate the people regarding maintenance and cleanliness of these common ways and stairwells, and sincerely hopes that everyone gives their full support to DBKK,” she disclosed.