#AdhamBabaLetakJawatan: Twitter users call for minister’s head
“We can barely manage the current #klustermenteri (ministers’ cluster), and yet, he wants to add #klustermenteri2?”
(The Vibes) – Outraged by the relaxation of Covid-19 quarantine rules for ministers returning from official visits abroad, Malaysians are calling for Health Minister Datuk Seri Dr Adham Baba’s resignation.
A federal gazette signed by him and released yesterday states that cabinet members are no longer required to undergo a 10-day quarantine upon their return home, and will instead observe just three days of observation to ensure they pose no health risk to the public.
The hashtag #AdhamBabaLetakJawatan is the top-trending one on Malaysian Twitter, followed by its English-language equivalent, #AdhamBabaOUT, and #MuhyiddinOut.
Over 7,000 posts had #AdhamBabaLetakJawatan at the time of writing.
User @Nuyenggg said the hashtag goes to show that the government has not learnt from its past mistake, in a possible reference to the lax implementation of coronavirus standard operating procedures for returnees from Sabah following the state election last September.
The polls have been blamed for Malaysia’s third Covid-19 wave, as Putrajaya initially did not require returnees to undergo quarantine, only implementing it when cases began to spike.
“Clearly someone hasn’t (learnt) anything from what has happened. Like what I’ve said alllllll the time before this; one country, two standards.”
