BIG MONEY IN DIRTY TOILETS? – MALAYSIAN CONCEPT

LET'S SEE, NO AMOUNT OF TRANING IS GOING TO IMPROVE THIS LOT, FOR SURE !

Whenever we have politicians open their mouth, it is either to cover their misdemeanour, some stupid publicity or worst, some grand scheme to line their pockets in the interest of public.
The local main stream media is never short of these, some sound so irrelevant that I don’t read beyond its captions and paying Rm1.20 per copy for it, is a rip-off most of the time but sometimes these comics do give you great avenue to blog.

Take for instant, our D.S.(a title bestowed) Ong Ka Chuan, Minister for Housing & Local Government Ministry in Malaysia, ran foul with toilets and want to make it compulsory for all food outlets to get their maintenance staff trained by ‘recognised institutions’(presently we don’t have any) to upkeep facilities.
Sound sincere enough, even sound good but compulsory training, by recognised institutions? Some grand scam again? Some of these are actually doing very well and have been lining some people’s pocket quite well, thank you very much. Grand ideas in the interest of public, monopoly and compulsory of course, PUKONSA, FORMEMA, FOREIGN WORKER INSURSANCE, to mention just a few of the big-big money ideas.
I must say they are good, this is what you call wealth creation, unfortunately not to the general public. We have all kinds of money making and compulsory schemes, some deemed illegal by the authority, but nothing beats the legal ones designed by ministers and authorities, it is big-big money and perpetual.

This grand toilet scheme and compulsory ‘contribution’ is not going to improve most of these toilets which are unsalvageable. Nothing is going to improve, the toilets will still be deplorable, the authority will then keep quiet and treated as job done, the 5-star hotels may be have to write off this expense as ‘toilet tax’ and extras on super detergents, recommended(compulsory) by ‘recognised institution’. I understand if the minister may only dine in 5-stars hotel and put on his thinking cap when pee or poop but have a look at common eateries and the stage of their toilets, no super training or cleaning are going to keep most of these toilets clean.
All are not lost, why not come out with a standard architecture plan to be distributed free for these outlets and make compulsory on these minimum standards. Can’t have that, can you? When you have no CONTROL.