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At the Dewan Rakyat yesterday: Shahrizat upset with Klang municipal council


April 4
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UTTERLY disappointed. Datuk Seri Shahrizat Abdul Jalil was clearly upset over the Klang municipal council’s issuance of a warrant of arrest against a 45-year-old disabled woman who could not pay parking fees because of her handicap.

"I am very disappointed at the lackadaisical attitude of the local authority in the matter," the Women, Family and Community Development Minister said when commenting on Gurmit Kaur’s plight.

She said the council should have provided disabled-friendly facilities like special parking lots for the disabled.

"Even though my ministry has no enforcement powers, I am utterly disappointed. I suspect they feel the disabled are not important enough.



"That is not true and I’m just reminding them this is blatant disregard for a section of the community which really needs help," she said in the Parliament lobby.

She attributed the problem to planning and implementation, with local authorities not adhering to policies set by the Government for the disabled. Shahrizat said she would raise the issue of a lack of disabled-friendly facilities in Cabinet.

The New Straits Times had reported yesterday that the warrant of arrest against the wheelchair-bound woman had come in the wake of 10 summonses for failure to display a parking ticket on her vehicle.
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