4/21/2008

TAX PAYERS PLAY THE ROLE OF FOOLS.

Another trainee pays the ultimate price in the name of National Service - Victim number 22.
How many more good lives are to be expended before we say “enough is enough”?
How many more to be needlessly thrown away before accountability is seen?
And how long more before any one is charge with dereliction of duty?

National Service (NS) trainee at the Sentosa Chenderiang training camp in Tapah near here died of fever last night.
NS Training Department director-general Datuk Abdul Hadi Awang Kechil said Afiq Zuhairi Ahmat Rozali, 18, died at Teluk Intan Hospital at 9.30pm while undergoing treatment.
Abdul Hadi said the trainee was first treated by an assistant medical officer at the camp on Monday after he complained of fever.

Tax payers play the role of fools as they pay NS trainers for their undeserved 5 days paid holiday and some crony make an extra bundle along the way.

National Service trainees, who are unable to make it back home during a five-day break from May 8 to 13, may apply for paid excursions.
They will be given two days off to go on "free and easy" day trips, to any location within 100km of their camp.
Expenses for the trips will be borne by the National Service Training Department.
NS director-general Datuk Abdul Hadi Awang Kechil announced this at the open day at the Setia Ikhlas camp here.
But, he added that trainees would have to return to their camp for the night.
He said the five-day holidays were intended to give some 31,000 trainees a break since there were no major festivals for this year's second batch of trainees.

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