I have been watching and monitoring the entire melodrama created by Selangor CPO, Khalid in the last one week over JERIT campaign. Now he has become the spokesperson to the Sultan to support his claim about misuse of children. Definitely Khalid must be a child activist!
Though he 'saved' 27 children in Rawang and then made them get wet in the rain for over 15 minutes and his men pointed gun at the children when they tried to seek shelter from the rain and that the children were put in a small meeting room overnight with the wet clothes on without proper ventilation and water supply or even space to sleep plus intimidation from his men from time to time, he truly has passions for the children.
He feels so strong about protecting the children that he feels it's alright for them to practice how to use fire-arms, go through hell of physical training in the National Service Program that led to the death of few children. He is even willing to charge Dr. Kumar, the only Socialist MP in Malaysia who is very famous among the poor and marginalised for his grass-root work for past 30 over years. Further more, he seems to be dead upset that Parliament allowed 130 people into the Parliament while his orders as well as the Deputy IGP was not met .
So, the CPO is definitely a child activist and I would like suggest that he takes up the following issues to ensure the hundreds of thousands of children in this country are protected:
# Ensure the government enact Minimum Wage Act, RM1,500 in order for children born to parents and guardians who earn less then RM1,500 live in comfort – all their basic needs are met: healthy diet, education, health care, decent home to live in and save neighborhood.
# Ensure the government respect, Convention on Rights of Children, that it rectified which means all children in this country including of those asylum seekers and refugees are given the fundamental rights, which currently is denied – housing, education, health care and employment for their parents.
# Ensure that all basic amenities e.g. education, health, water, electricity are not privatized as it denies access to the lower income including their children, obviously.
# Ensure the workers in this country are protected during the current financial crisis – it's a fact that many would lose job and many would not able to pay their house, car loans and many families would be in debt and suffer until the economy recovers. If the families suffer, the children too would be affected……can the government immediately have a contingency plan e.g. retrenchment fund, farming scheme, food ration and so on to ensure the welfare and the safety of our children and their parents are taken care.
# Take serious action to ensure our future generation, the children are not addicted to drug, cigarette or become gangsters!
# Ensure police does not support force evictions as it will involve the well being of children as they will not have homes etc.
There is many more to demand but for now this would do. If the CPO, a person who has such compassion towards the children can fight for the above, then we salute you, otherwise you are nothing but a hypocrite trying to please your 'masters'.
In the last 2 weeks of JERIT cycle campaign, the 100 over participants who took part in the campaign and made history are embedded with many questions about the integrity of the police force; more sadly even the children ask the same question:
* Why are the police keep following us, why are they simply harassing us, why are they blocking the roads, why are they destroying our properties and why are they holding weapons? Are they criminals or police?
* Why are you not letting us cycle, why do we have sit in the bus all the time, let us cycle! What is wrong in cycling, I always cycle and I like to cycle, why the police forbidding us from cycling? Is cycling a crime in our country?
If a camel can enter the eye of a needle, then CPO Khalid can be a child activist too.
Letchimi Devi
