Thursday October 19, 2006
Govt to look into process of appointing councillors
PUTRAJAYA: The government will look into the process of appointing councillors to avoid future incidents where more than a member of a family is appointed to a council, Deputy Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak said.
He said this was necessary to avoid accusations that district or municipal councils would only comprise members of a certain family.
“We will consider looking into this again. Actually, this situation had never happened before, as appointments are made based on certain criteria,” he said.
“It so happens that members of this family met the criteria. We had never expected this scenario (where several members of the same family become members of the same council) to happen,” he told reporters after chairing the Cabinet Committee on Investment at his office on Thursday.
The Deputy Prime Minister was commenting on reports that Port Klang assemblyman Datuk Zakaria Md Deros was not the only one in his family appointed as Klang municipal councillor.
Also appointed were his son Zainuri and daughter-in-law Roselinda Abdul Jamil.Their appointments had met with objections.
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