Just after the 2004 election, SCT started to send letters to Puchong MP to inform him of the Ayer Hitam Reserved Forest Cemetery Issue with high hope that he will be able to help us resolve the issue.
After numerous letter correspondences, he finally agreed to meet us on 25 Feb 2006 night at one of the residence home under some extremely unreasonable and ridiculous conditions.
His conditions for the visit were:
1. He will visit us as a ‘rakyat’ and not in his capacity as the MP of Puchong.
2. We cannot inform any opposition on his visit
3. We cannot invite the media to cover his visit
4. He will not be discussing on the cemetery issue.
5. He will not promise us on anything during the visit
Due to our anxiousness and belief in his sincerity to resolve the cemetery issue, we reluctantly accepted his visit hoping that something good will come out of it.
He came quietly, he chatted with us and he went off with his last words “I will try my best”.
Looking back, slowly and surely, we begin to understand his unwritten message.
In fact, we could safely say that he did not want to meet us in the first place. If not, what were the reasons for the stiff conditions?
He has never really wanted to help us. If not, why didn’t he want to meet us up?
Then, why did he come finally? We think he had no choice because SCT was naïve enough to accept his ridiculous conditions.
Then again, on May 13, 2006, which fell on “Mother’s Day”, SCT again invited Puchong MP for a ‘MEET THE RESIDENTS’ session.
Saujana Puchong residents were very excited and fielded our dear MP with numerous questions.
When residents asked him about day-to-day issues regarding electricity, water, grass cutting, rubbish, etc, the MP explained happily in full details with outstanding descriptions.
However, when residents started to question on the cemetery issue, the residents saw a 180 degree turn. He began to avoid the issue by giving unreasonable reasons.
Because of our earlier experience with him, we grew a bit smarter and started to press for solid answers and did not allow him to beat around the bush.
Finally, after much pressure from the residents, he gave in and pledged that he will fully support us to resolve the cemetery issue all the way to the end.
Obviously, feeling proud of our good day work, we thanked the MP for his full support and going home feeling gung-ho that the issue will be resolved.
The story ended with us waiting more than a year without any news from him until June 2007 when we finally realized that we have been taken for a ride again.
This time, armed with even more bad experience and again thinking that we are smart people, we ask to see him to follow up on the progress.
Do you want know what he told us this time?
He told us that he has helped us resolved electricity, grass, mosquitoes, water problems, therefore he has helped us resolved all our issues!!!
Since that day, we never get a chance to see him again.
All these events lead us to ask ourselves, the residents of Saujana Puchong a few questions?
1. Is the MP of Puchong a trustworthy and honest person?
2. Is the MP of Puchong, the type of person who will keep promises?
3. Is the MP of Puchong someone who is sincere in helping us?
4. Is the MP of Puchong someone who will not readily leave us when the going gets tough?
5. Is the MP of Puchong someone that we want to represent us?
Dear Residents, in many things, we believe, action speaks louder than words.
We believe with this ‘Missing in Action’ MP, all of us are wise enough to make an informed and well considered conclusion on our own.
