Unwanted voice

I’m neither a Minister or a taxi driver, but I understand their plights of being caught between bureaucrats and rising fuel prices.

Sharmini Darshini interviewed President of the Malaysian Taxi/Limousine and Hired Car Drivers and Operators Association, Yusoff Lahir and he is more than concern of taxi drivers’ welfare.

Over the interview, I can notice that he speaks fondly of the ex-Entrepreneur Development Minister Mustapa Mohamed as someone who are willing to call all parties concerned to sit down and discuss and critisized Entrepeneur and Co-operative Development Minister Khaled Nordin for refusing a meeting with him and abstain from entertaining any questions or feedback from taxi drivers.

Also, no thanks by him to ex-Entrepeneur Development Minister Nazri Aziz too, for the infamous 13,000 taxi permits issued during his years.

When asked what can be done to improve the negative image of taxi drivers, he answered:

[...] The Government has to intervene. We have families and mouths to feed. What we are saying today is only for the sake of our welfare. In any industry there are bad apples. There are just a handful of terrible taxi drivers. [...]

I can’t agree more, life is hard for them. There are just a few bad apples out there, spar the rest.

Surprisingly, though I’m not a Yang Amat Berhormat Datuk, but I can understand their plights, the least I think.

Probably someone up there don’t like to make his hand or mouth dirty.

The latest typical sad but true enough’s case.