‘Return your salaries, it’s also haram money’
By FMT Staff
SHAH ALAM: All Umno elected representatives are invited to return their salaries to the Penang state government because the money is also ‘not halal like the RM100 gift from the state to the senior citizens”.
“If Umno says all monies including the RM100 is tainted, then the salaries collected by Umno state reps is also haram. So, return the money (to the state). Don’t take it,” said an irritated Komtar assemblyman Ng Wei Aik in reponse to reports that 40 senior citizens had returned the money.
Ng said Umno’s attempt to villify the state’s gift to Muslim senior citizens would only backfire on them.
“Poor chaps. I feel sorry for the senior citizens. They don’t know what is actually happening. It is obvious that Umno is attempting to grab what they (citizens) should get.
“The state government has never forced any company, or state agencies or even the horse racing club to make donation. But if there are such funds than it is kept in another category.
“The funds come under the state financial officer. They segregate the funds without an issue, ” he said echoing an earlier statement by Penang Islamic Affairs committee chairman Abdul Malik Abdul Kassim.
Malik, who also heads the Dometic Trade and Consumer Affairs portfolio, had slammed Umno’s attempt to scare the senior citizens with allegations that the RM100 gift was not halal money.
