Once again, Higher Education Minister Shafie Mohd Salleh stood out on behalf of PTPTN and responded to the loan repayments instruction by Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi.
However, very unfortunately, he is no more a friendly guy. This time, he means business, real one. Quote:
"Reply within 14 days of receiving the final reminder or face legal action.""They must respond immediately upon receiving their notice which was being sent to the students."
"We have decided to take 200 students to court in April after they failed to respond to their final reminder."
"As such, we advise other students to act immediately or face court action."
Merely 2 days ago, he was reported as saying that a friendly chat would be held with students or so-called loan defaulters to open their hearts so that they can start their repayment.
Now, warning being issued. What a dramatical U-Turn?
How can a politician cum minister level people play switching remarks games in such an uninteresting way?
Sometimes, we just can’t blame people for not picking up fellow ministers advises or good wishes. The sense of betrayal is so strong.
Or afterall, should I take this as another sidesplitter?
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Dun play play. When he said ‘friendly chat’, he meant ‘friendly chat, like that loan shark who always have friendly chats with the debtors’
The police are all looking high and low for loan sharks, yet they forgot to look inside the Parliament House. Haha!