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FACE TO FACE…Shahrizat (sixth right) talking with residents of Kg Laloh.
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6th July, 2009
KUALA KRAI: Hardcore poverty in Kelantan will only worsen without financial allocation from the federal government to improve the people’s living standard, Women, Family and Community Development Minister Senator Datuk Seri Shahrizat Abdul Jalil said yesterday.
She said the federal government provided RM27 million in 2007 compared to only RM10 million allocated by the state government while last year the federal government spent RM41 million while the state spent only RM11 million.
“This year, we have spent RM21 million so far but the state has only spent RM2 million,” she told reporters after handing out welfare aid to 106 poor people in Kampung Laloh, here.
Shahrizat said she regretted that many people in Kelantan had to seek employment in other states because the PAS state government had failed to provide enough jobs for the people.
“The Manik Urai state by-election is an opportunity for the people to signal that they do not want this situation to continue,” she said.
Nomination is today and polling on July 14 in the by-election, necessitated by the death of state assemblyman Ismail Yaakob of PAS on May 22.
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