Selangor govt slammed over alleged attempts to hamper programme

KUALA SELANGOR - Caretaker Prime Minister Datuk Seri Ismail Sabri Yaakob slammed the Selangor State government over the latter's alleged bid in preventing an entreprenuerial programme from being organised here, today.

He said that the event, co-organised by the Ministry of Entrepreneur Development and Cooperatives (KUSKOP) and the Ministry of Finance faced difficulties in organising as it was not given permission to conduct the programme.

The event is called the Selangor State Entrepreneurs Development and Cooperatives Carnical.

"I understand the hardship to organise the programme today, I was also informed that the Selangor state government does not agree to allow in using this site for the programme.

"Luckily this is a private site (proggrame site) so they can't block it. We do this for the benefit of entrepreneurs in Selangor.

"We did not hold this programme to campaign but to provide space to small business owners which they didn't give (Selangor state government)," he said.

He added that the behaviour shown by the state government was inconsiderate to the small and medium entrepreneurs in Selangor.

"This is their attitude (the opposition) when it comes to hawkers and other petty traders.

"Fortunately, we have KUSKOP who cares about the interest of all entrepreneurs," said Ismail Sabri.

Also present at the programme were Minister of Finance Datuk Seri Tengku Zafrul Tengku Abdul Aziz and KUSKOP Minister Tan Sri Noh Omar.