Shadow Policy Committee

Kepala Batas Hospital which was situated in the parliamentary constituency of Prime Minister Datuk Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi was initiated and build when Pak Lah took over the reign from former premier Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad. Pak Lah's move after became prime minister is to upgrade his constituency to a possible city status in near future, where several major federal government agencies were relocated to this area to boast development and to increase the property value in that area. To fully equip his constituency, a healthcare centre was top on his development list reasoning that the present Seberang Jaya Hospital could not accomodate the entire Seberang Perai population and the purpose of the Kepala Batas Hospital was to support the population in his area which had seen its population increasing since then. However, after years goes by, Kepala Batas Hospital has been build and now operational with the most sophisticated health system installed, the hospital was still seen as me...

As we could see today the Bagan township situated in the heart of Butterworh has been widely abandoned by most federal government departments and agencies who had either shifted to Bukit Mertajam or Kepala Batas. Most of these agencies shifted without giving prior notice to the population and hence, most of us were left in the dark, searching for certain offices and agencies without first knowing its actual locations. Ever since the federal government's withdrawal from the Bagan township, the area has been left out and had since turned into a quiet and most areas were unlively like it has been previously. So why are the feds abandoning the Bagan townfolks. Their reasons to centralise their federal administration offices and to reduce cost were in fact unreasonable and a way too simple to be accepted by most of us. Is it because the Bagan parliamentary constituency has been long an opposition stronghold and knowing that the fact the Bagan townfolks wanted a check and balance to cont...