Apa Guna Darurat Jika Tak Dapat Bantu Rakyat- Dr Asyraf

KUALA LUMPUR, 13 Jun – Apa guna darurat jika tidak dapat bantu rakyat, tegas Ketua Pergerakan Pemuda UMNO, Datuk Dr Asyraf Wajdi Dusuki.

Jelas beliau, Pemuda UMNO juga berpendirian selepas 1 Ogos 2021 tidak perlu lagi diteruskan darurat yang ternyata lebih memudaratkan negara sedangkan jelas tidak berkesan untuk menurunkan kes COVID-19 kepada sekurang-kurangnya dua angka.

“Saya tidak mahu mengulas siapa yang betul antara Ketua Pengarah Kesihatan dan Menteri Undang-Undang, walaupun resah melihat dua anggota pentadbiran saling berkontradiksi antara satu sama lain mengenai isu darurat.

“Ketua Pengarah Kesihatan Tan Sri Noor Hisham Abdullah kata hanya Tuanku Agong (Al- Sultan Abdullah Ri’ayatuddin Al-Mustafa Billah Shah Ibni Al-Marhum Sultan Haji Ahmad Shah Al-Musta’in Billah) punya budi bicara untuk teruskan darurat ataupun tidak,” katanya dalam satu hantaran di Facebook, hari ini.

Tambah Dr Asyraf lagi, kemudian, Menteri Undang-Undang pula perbetulkan kenyataan itu bahawa hanya Jemaah Menteri boleh nasihat Tuanku Agong (tidak timbul budi bicara) untuk teruskan darurat ataupun tidak.

“Yang pasti Perdana Menteri dalam perutusan khas beliau menyatakan secara jelas bahawa yang di bawah ordinan darurat, jawatankuasa khas ditubuhkan untuk menasihati KDYMM Seri Paduka Baginda Yang di-Pertuan Agong.

“Jadi tak perlu kenyataan-kenyataan yang buat rakyat lebih keliru! Tak mungkin PM bersandiwara dengan penubuhan jawatan khas darurat tersebut,” katanya lagi.

Ujarnya, bagi Pemuda UMNO, dalam tempoh sebulan setengah berbaki sebelum darurat tamat, lebih baik kerajaan manfaatkan ordinan darurat untuk kepentingan rakyat.

Berikut adalah tiga cadangan dari Pemuda UMNO

1.Arahkan Bank tawarkan Moratorium tanpa caj mahupun faedah tambahan kepada semua golongan termasuk M40.

2.Arahkan KWSP untuk rakyat akses kepada i-Sinar 2.0 dan i-Lestari 2.0

3.Mengawal harga barang keperluan asas rakyat yang naik mendadak di kala pandemik. – UMNO Online

Is Emergency really helping the people?

KUALA LUMPUR, June 13 – What’s the point of having a state of emergency if we cannot assist the people, said Youth Chief Datuk Dr Asyraf Wajdi Dusuki.

He said the Youth is of the same stance that emergency is no longer needed after August 1st since it failed to bring down the number of Covid-19 infection case.

“I don’t want to say who is right or wrong between the Health DG and minister in-charge of the law although their statements always contradict each other.

“Health DG Tan Sri Noor Hisham Abdullah said only the Yang di-Pertuan Agong (Al- Sultan Abdullah Ri’ayatuddin Al-Mustafa Billah Shah Ibni Al-Marhum Sultan Haji Ahmad Shah Al-Musta’in Billah) has the say in deciding as to whether emergency should continue of cease,” he said in a Facebook posting, today.

He also said the Law Minister on the other hand clarified only the Cabinet can advise the King on the matter.

“The prime minister had said earlier that under the Emergency Ordinance, a special committee is formed to advise the King. In this manner, no need to mislead the people with such statements. I don’t think the PM simply joked about the committee,” he said.

 

For the Youth, he said it is advisable that the government make full use of the remaining one and a half month of the emergency to really help the people.

He outlines three major things the government should attend to:

  1. Instruct the banks to offer a free of extra charge and interest moratorium to the affected income brackets, including B40;
  2. Instruct EPF to allow the people access to i-Sinar and i-Lestari 2.0; and
  3. Control the sipralling prices of daily goods.