Putrajaya already treating Sg Kim Kim incident as emergency, says Hanipa
Deputy Minister in the Prime Minister's Department Mohamed Hanipa Maidin says the federal government will assist the Johor state government in terms of cost, setting aside RM8 million for the Sg Kim Kim clean-up. – The Malaysian Insight file pic, March 14, 2019.
PUTRAJAYA is already treating the chemical waste dumping disaster at Sg Kim Kim in Johor as an emergency even without an emergency declared, said Mohamed Hanipa Maidin. The deputy minister in the Prime Minister’s Department said if an incident could not be resolved at the district level, it would go to the state.
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