DanielYKL

 

“I don’t answer to him (referring to Deputy Minister in the Prime Minister’s Department Senator T. Murugiah),” said Syed Hamid, adding that the food served to detainees met international standards. 

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I don’t know what the Home Minister meant when he said, “the food served to detainees met international standards.”

Is he saying that, internationally, all over the world, detainees are fed 3 meals with just RM4.30 (approx. USD1.30). Isn’t that what it implied? Are the detainees in the USA, Britian, Japan, Korea, Singapore, etc…, only allocated USD1.30 per day? I wonder what they eat there for USD1.30 for 3 meals! Only the Home Minister can enlighten us with his once again wacky statement. Is a loaf of ‘local bread,” a cup of tea or coffee, 2 packet of rice and 2 eggs a day considered international standards?

With the high cost of living and food price keeps going up, how can anyone in Malaysia survived with RM4.50 for 3 meals per day. Just for the Home Minister’s sake just in case he has lost touch with reality - a piece of roti canai or a loaf of “local roti” cost between 80 sen to a ringgit. Plain rice cost about 60 sen. One hard-boiled egg is about 60 to 80 sen. I quoted these prices from the Mamak shop. Other places could cost more. So If I want to have a decent meal, one plate of rice, 1 egg, maybe 2 bendi, a little fried cabbage, would cost atleast RM2.50 to RM3.00. And that’s the minimum estimation for just one meal! But I’m pretty sure, a normal decent meal would cost anything from RM4.00 to RM5.00, and that doesn’t include the drink. Even plain water would cost you 20 sen! Ask anyone is RM4.50 sufficient to have a decent meal today here in Malaysia, let alone 3 decent meals! Beats me!

It really fascinates me how the Home Minister dare to openly state that what the food served to detainees met international standards! I hope it’s another joke from him.

Have the Home Minister ever seen what food is been served to the detainees? And if he have, can he honestly say that the food is of “international standards?“ And do the detainees deserved the type food been served now? And just in case we forget, these people that are remanded are still innocent till proven guilty! And most importantly, they are human. That’s right, human like you and me. The rights to be sheltered, fed and clothed decently!

So please tell us, is RM4.50 per day in accordance to “INTERNATIONAL STANDARDS?”

On another matter, yes, the egg matter. Can you believe it? Police report lodged against Teresa Kok for insulting egg! Don’t this people have better things to do than go around and make police report on “insulting egg?”  Yes, you read it right. EGG! They said she had insulted the police and the poor. Eggs are an important food for low-income earners and the poor. As an elected representative of the people she should not have said that. Insulted the police? What have the police got to do with the egg. Did the police lay the egg or what? What is the connection? And if you are so concerned about the poor, go and do something. Go and provide for their needs, make sure they have enough to eat, rather than making stupid reports and making us look foolish to the world. First it was about the dog, then the egg. What’s next? Maybe the chicken hatched from the egg. This goes to prove the standard of maturity and intelligence of these people.