DAP: Minister 'fooling public' on sugar subsidies


DAP has slammed the supervision for confusing to fool the public in increasing the sugarine subsidies in the face of claimed sugarine cost increases when tellurian prices had decreased in the past 6 months.

"Therefore by progressing sugarine prices during RM2.30, the supervision should in actual actuality have to finance less, as well as not more, as proudly boasted by Domestic Trade, Cooperatives as well as Consumerism Minister lsmail Sabri Yaakob.

NONE"Is lsmail Sabri confusing to pull the quick one by claiming Malaysia has increasing the sugarine funding given tellurian prices have increasing notwithstanding the opposite being true?" pronounced DAP national broadside cabinet member Tony Pua(left)in the statement.

He was referring to theminister's claimon Friday which the supervision has increasing subsidies from twenty sen to 54 sen per kilogramme of sugarine in order to say the cost of sugarine during RM2.30.

In the inform inThe Staron Friday, Ismail Sabri credited the supervision for keeping the cost of sugarine down notwithstanding the actuality which the "global cost of sugarine is skyrocketing".

Pua rebutted the claim, saying: "What is intensely intriguing, however, was which tellurian sugarine prices over the past 6 months given the final cost hike in May 2011 had in actuality declined significantly, as well as not the purported 'skyrocket'."

Subsidies for whom?

He pronounced universe sugarine cost hit the peak in July 2011 during USD0.2947 per bruise as well as "ha! s fallen consistently every month" given then, finale during USD0.2342 final December.

Factoring in the depreciation of the ringgit opposite the US dollar during 7 percent, he said, the net cost decrease was still 13.5 percent in ringgit terms.

Pua, who is additionally PJ Utara MP, questioned who the genuine customer of the funding boost was, observant which usually dual companies monopolised local sugarine distribution: Malayan Sugar Manufacturing Holdings (MSM Holdings) as well as Tradewinds Corporation Bhd.

NONEMSM, he said, is the 71 percent auxiliary of Felda-related entities while Tradewinds is 43 percent controlled by Syed ! Mokhtar Al-Bukhary(right)with an additional twenty percent owned by Felda Global Ventures Holdings Bhd.

Noting which it was confusing which subsidies "had to enlarge by 170 percent to cope with the self-existent skyrocketing tellurian cost of sugar", Pua demanded an explanation from the minister.

"The minister must as the result explain because there was the need to enlarge subsidies when the tellurian sugarine cost is falling while during the same time explain who are the genuine beneficiaries from the additional RM198 million of supposed 'subsidy'," he said.
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