Easing the burden: Lim (right) giving out the state’s one-off cash aid of RM400 for victims of the Sept 15 floods at Rifle Range flats in Ayer Itam.
GEORGE TOWN: The state government has claimed that the Federal Government only gave RM35,500 in financial aid to Penang flood victims over the past five years.
Chief Minister Lim Guan Eng said the amount only accounted for 0.02% of the total RM235mil allocations given out to flood victims nationwide during the same period.
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