Change begins with person in the mirror

DURING the campaigning period for the 13th general election, my area, Serdang in Selangor, suffered one of the biggest floods in its history. The cause? Culverts that were overgrown with weeds, which delayed the dispersal of flood water from the low-lying areas.

Basically, our local government employees hadn’t been doing their job. They were inundated by calls from our community and within an hour, workers were toiling around the clock to clean up the culverts they should have been maintaining in the first place.