Manyin shows his ministerial winding-up speech.
SARAWAK Pakatan Harapan (PH) is urged to emulate National Higher Educaton Corporation Fund (PTPTN) chairman Wan Saiful Wan Jan in apologising to the people if it cannot deliver its election promises.
Minister of Education, Science and Technological Research Dato Sri Michael Manyin said Wan Saiful had openly tendered his apology after PH failed to fulfill its promise on the (PTPTN) education fund loan.
Manyin said Wan Saiful had drafted the manifesto, which PH now could not fulfill.
Wan Saiful had said that he was fully responsible for it, and therefore he tendered his apology.
Manyin said ‘to err is human, to forgive is also human, but to forget is divine’.
“So if you are really a gentleman, please apologise and we will accept your apology.
“But because we are not divine we will not forget your promises,” he said when taking questions from Chong Chieng Jen (DAP-Kota Sentosa) during his ministerial winding-up speech yesterday.
The Tebedu assemblyman had earlier said PH had never seemed to stop blaming the previous government
“Former minister Tan Sri Rafidah Aziz and Council of Eminent Persons chairman Tun Daim Zainuddin have urged the PH government to stop blaming the previous government, and to start working.
“That’s why I said the ball is at your feet. It is time to score now,” he said.
Chong had earlier accused the Sarawak government as treating the federal budget as an automated teller machine (ATM).
He also said Manyin has misled the people once about the percentage of federal development budget to Sarawak.
“Now in this august House he (Manyin) misleads again,” he said.
Chong said PH never promised 30 per cent of the budget for Sarawak, instead it was 30 per cent for Sabah and Sarawak.
“The fact that the promise cannot be fulfilled is due to the financial predicament of the federal government, and that was because Sarawak Barisan Nasional was a partner in crime in Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak’s government,” he said.