KUALA LUMPUR: Umno Youth executive council member Datuk Azimi Daim hit out at Tabung Haji for engaging a non-bumiputra company to supply mineral water for free to delegates and guests at the Umno general assembly.
Azimi queried the rationale for engaging a non-bumi company when all the investors in Tabung Haji are Muslims.
“Don’t tell me there is no single Malay company that is capable of sourcing mineral water. Even I can dig a well, and collect mineral water,” he said when debating the Umno president's policy speech on Wednesday.
Azimi pointed out that Tabung Haji’s move to engage a non-bumiputra company to supply easily available product like water, was not in line with party president Datuk Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi’s call to GLCs to jointly shoulder the responsibility to develop the bumiputra commercial and industrial community.
Azimi also hit out at a broadcasting station for interviewing non-Malays who proposed guidelines for Umno speakers.
“We have never set any guidelines when others hold their party general assembly. The duty of Pemuda, Wanita, and Puteri is to use the assembly as a platform to highlight grassroots sentiments. We cannot keep mum,” he said.
Source: http://thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2007/11/7/nation/20071107201106&sec=nation
** I read this news, was surprise that they went to all extend to put it on the local newspaper. Why? To share with all people how they were not able to get water for their people for the meet up? Hmm, not a clever move to slap own's face ourselves. So, this is clever move? Beats me, i drink from the tap, not well :)
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