NS trainees want out of camp
Three dirty pillows on a bed in one of the rooms inside the NS White Resort camp in Balik Pulau, Penang.
(The Star) – A source told The Star that the camp used to be one of the best NS sites in the country when it was opened about five years ago. “It is now so badly maintained that it can be considered one of the worst in the country now”
A group of National Service (NS) trainees from the White Resort camp here want to leave the programme over deplorable conditions such as insufficient food and broken toilet locks.
One of the trainees’ brother, who declined to be named, said that he received a call from his sister on Tuesday night, asking him to pick her up from the camp.
“But, I was denied access after travelling all the way from Perak,” he said. “I waited at the office for almost two hours, only to be told that I could not see her.
“She had told me that she could not stand the camp’s unkempt condition. She even found worms in her food. It’s a miracle no one came down with food poisoning,” he said when met at the camp yesterday.
He added that his sister had also complained that some of the toilet doors were broken and could not be locked.
Reporters were not allowed to visit the camp’s facilities and were instructed to wait at the office for more than two hours before being told to leave the site.
