Appointed local authorities are not accountable to their local communities and thus not motivated to act. FMTNews PasirGudang Johor
Malaysians have become totally fed-up with the performance of their local authorities all these years. Our daily newspapers are full of complaints about the many aspects of local councils’ irresponsibility and questionable activities.
Just three months after the Sungai Kim Kim incident where toxic fumes from illegally dumped chemical waste affected some 6,000 residents, we witness another case of toxic pollution in Pasir Gudang, where at least 75 schoolchildren have fallen ill due to suspected air pollution. The source of the air pollution has yet to be identified. Any elected local government would have been forced to resign over such a scandal by an empowered electorate.
It is clear that the authorities have not bothered to enforce the regulations concerning the dumping of toxic wastes by factories. Throughout Malaysia, disruptions in water supply often bring to light the fact that there are illegal factories operating close to the sources of our water supply and that regulating authorities have allowed developers to build new housing close to such polluting factories.
We see the same repetition of disasters involving landslides in Penang and elsewhere with unresponsive local governments accountable to nobody except their state governments, while migrant workers pay for such negligence with their lives. Developers seem to hold sway everywhere in Malaysia.
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