October 6, Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi instructed all ministries and government agencies to settle outstanding bills submitted by contractors and suppliers within three weeks.

Immediately, Works Minister S Samy Vellu ordered the Public Works Department (PWD) to speed up payments to contractors and suppliers in less than two weeks, trying to give an impression that he wants to do better than what had been told by his boss.

Now, what amused me is this, Samy Vellu being a cabinet minister for almost 27 years since 1979, virtually made him the third longest person to hold a minister post in the country after Lim Keng Yaik and Rafidah Aziz, needs the Prime Minister himself to speak the order before he knows well on what to do with the execution part.

Afterall, logically speaking, holding the office as Works Minister uninterrupted since 1995, he should have been smarter by now to realise what to do without the high level intervention on this minor kind of payment issue, isn’t it?

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