Academician lashes out at deputy finance minister’s attempt to fool people


Dateline 2013-09-06, The Malaysian Chronicle:

An academician today takes deputy Finance minister (DFM) Ahmad Maslan to task over what he described as untruth explanation on oil prices in Malaysia compared to neighbouring countries.

Attempting to soothe public anger over the recent fuel price hike, Ahmad pointed out that Malaysia is the 8th lowest in the world in terms of price of fuel after Venezuela, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Egypt, United Arab Emirates, Iran and Nigeria.

“Are we trying to deny the fact that the price of petrol in Brunei, Qatar, Bahrain, Algeria, Sudan, Libya and Oman is cheaper than Malaysia? Why Ahmad did not disclose the petrol prices in those countries?” UKM School of History, Politics and Strategy lecturer Dr Mohamad Agus Yusoff responded to Ahmad’s reasoning in a Facebook posting today.

One Response to Academician lashes out at deputy finance minister’s attempt to fool people

  1. Jack Ku says:

    The DFM needs to concern who is actually benefitted the huge subsidy amount in this country? and not just to compare fuel prices with the others.
    In east Malaysia tons and tons of subsidy diesel collected from the fishermen, petrol station everyday and sell to the RICH, those who owned oil palm factories and estates. At the same time, millions liters of diesel delivered to kampong every month by special license, but public know very well about where those diesel gone!
    Our existing subsidy police of the fuels is just using public money to help the rich to cut operation cost.

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