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Friday, July 4, 2014

Ku Nan now willing to listen to suggestions on soup kitchens

The Federal Territories minister now says he is ready to listen and make necessary amendments after asking soup kitchens to move out of the city centre. – The Malaysian Insider file pic, July 4, 2014.The Federal Territories minister now says he is ready to listen and make necessary amendments after asking soup kitchens to move out of the city centre. – The Malaysian Insider file pic, July 4, 2014.
After being soundly condemned over his move to ban soup kitchens to weed out beggars in Kuala Lumpur, Federal Territories Minister Datuk Seri Tengku Adnan Tengku Mansor now says he is ready to listen and make necessary amendments.
He said that he has taken into account the complaints from the people and friends about the issue, adding that he had also read all the "harsh words" thrown at him following the announcement.
"My intention was to make right the situation but if there are people who have a different assumption or perception, then I am ready to clear it up and explain my real intention behind this," he said in a Facebook posting last night.
"I want to say that it was not my intention to do so. I hope the people understand the problems that we are facing.
"My intention is to make the city clean. For that, I am ready to listen and make the necessary amendments to what is needed.”
Tengku Adnan had said yesterday that soup kitchens in the city would be fined if they did not move out of Kuala Lumpur by Monday.
He said this was in line with Putrajaya’s plan to remove the homeless from Kuala Lumpur’s streets and added that NGOs were prohibited from feeding the homeless within a 2km-radius around the city centre’s iconic Lot 10 shopping complex.
Announcing the ban, Tengku Adnan claimed that soup kitchens were dirty and attracted rodents that spread diseases like leptospirosis.
Ku Nan said the homeless could go to temples and mosques outside Kuala Lumpur if they needed food, adding that those who donated to beggars in the capital city would also be fined.
On Wednesday, Tengku Adnan Tengku Mansor had said that the ministry would impose fines and other penalties on alms givers and beggars.
He had said this was necessary to reduce the begging culture that tarnished the city’s image.
The decision to relocate the soup kitchens has drawn flak from those carrying out feeding programmes in the city as well as from the public, who have called the minister "heartless".
Following the announcement, soup-kitchen operators in Kuala Lumpur vowed to continue feeding the homeless despite the threat from City Hall, insisting they ran a clean operation and always cleaned up after their food was distributed to the homeless.
- TMI

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