Is selling sugar the work of a Ministry? Only in Malaysia,my good friend. Malaysia Boleh!
Yes, you read it right the first time. The Ministry of Domestic Trade, Cooperatives and Consumerism will be a stop-gap supra retailer of sugar. This is to alleviate the current sugar situation in the country. I guess this has something to do with a potential sugar hike sometime soon.
Hoarders have taken away the normal market supply and the people are crying for that addictive pinch of sugar for their cake and coffee.
So, instead of enforcement measures which they were never ever good since this would pit them racially against another ethnic group, they have decided to play supra retailer. [Chicken-livered? Yes, yes, yes!]
Have fun reading what a Deputy Minister has to say on this matter. Laughable?
“ Tan Lian Hoe, the Deputy Minister in the Ministry of consumerism says so long as there are complaints of sugar shortage from retail outlets or consumers, the ministry will sell it directly to the public to ensure there is supply of the commodity. She said this stop-gap measure is not something new as it was introduced last year and is carried out as and when needed.
Tan said this following a move by the ministry’s Perak branch to set up temporary stalls in the Indera Mulia Stadium in Ipoh on Saturday to sell sugar to the public.[Kah! Kah!Kah!]
It is learnt that the branch has 72 tonnes of sugar at its disposal for the purpose.
She said as long as the need arises, the ministry’s branches or offices will take the temporary measure to retail sugar at farmer’s markets, night markets, or stadiums, or even dispatch its enforcement officers to see to it that sugar is supplied to retailers.
Tan said she did not know yet if any state outside Perak is taking the same measure as she has not received any briefing on the sugar situation from the other branches.
She blamed wholesalers for the shortage of sugar in some areas, saying some of them impose conditions for supplying the commodity to retailers, such as via package deal that require retailers to purchase other items apart from sugar. [Ho ho ho, what a laugh here!]
Retailers who do not accept the package deal are not given their usual quota of supply, resulting in shortages.
"For example, a retailer who regularly receives 2,000 kg of sugar a month may be given only 300kg to 400kg instead for rejecting the package deal," Tan said.
She said retailers are afraid to blow the whistle on errant wholesalers out of fear that the supply will stop if they do. [Ho ho ho, what a laugh here, too!]
Tan urged consumers to report any shortage of sugar to the ministry She also said the new system of sugar distribution being introduced by the ministry will make certain parties unhappy but it has to be implemented to protect the basic interest of the consumers.”
I am still laughing, are you?
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