KUALA LUMPUR – Human Resources Minister Datuk Seri M. Saravanan has set a date for DAP chairman Lim Guan Eng to provide evidence that he had failed to address the country’s migrant labour shortage.
In an interview this afternoon, Saravanan shared the invitation for Lim to meet him at the minister’s office in Putrajaya on October 5.
Saravanan said Lim’s recent calls for him to resign if he can find shortcomings in the ministry’s handling of the matter showed that the DAP leader did not understand the ministry’s role.
The minister also said a similar invitation was extended to DAP’s Beruas MP Ngeh Koo Ham, who has been a staunch critic of the ministry.
Saravanan said from April this year to date, all memoranda of understanding related to migrant labour have been resolved with the source countries.
He added that all quotas involving the 14 source countries have also been set.
“What else does the ministry have to do? Does it need to send ships (to the source countries) to bring in the workers?”
“I have asked Lim Guan Eng to attend the meeting on the given date and will be sending an official letter to him,” Saravanan said.
“He must bring proof of the flaws of the Human Resources Ministry. Don’t bring political drama, just bring the evidence on where we went wrong.”
Yesterday, Lim reminded Saravanan about their resignation challenge to each other, saying he had waited 10 days to hear from the minister on the matter.
The reminder came after Lim accepted Saravanan’s challenge to scrutinise his ministry for any shortcomings in addressing the acute shortage of workers in the country on September 15. – The Vibes, September 27, 2022
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