KOTA KINABALU: Kota Kinabalu City Hall (DBKK) is offering temporary daily work for ex-offenders under the Compulsory Attendance Order (PKW) to pave the way for them to serve the community.
DBKK mayor Datuk Yeo Boon Hai said keen ex-PKW offenders would be recruited for temporary daily work based on the need to carry out public cleaning and landscaping works especially if there was an event or official visit here. He said the approach could be the first step for ex-PKW offenders to prepare themselves to return to the fold of society.
“DBKK will hire them depending on needs and it will be for carrying out cleaning work and beautifying the city and setting up tents. A daily allowance of RM44 will be given to those accepted to work,” he said yesterday.
Yeo said this to reporters after the signing of a Memorandum of Community Service Cooperation between DBKK and the Prisons Department of Malaysia here. He represented DBKK while the department was represented by Parole and Community Service director, Datuk Abdul Aziz Abdul Razak.
Yeo said the cooperation, via the National Blue Ocean Strategy (NBOS), would be implemented for a five-year period, among others, was aimed at ensuring PKW offenders could carry out compulsory work including cleaning the city, gotong royong, charity and voluntary work in safety. — Bernama