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KUALA LUMPUR (June 20): Penang’s chief minister Chow Kon Yeow (pictured) today called on local councils to maintain markets and hawker centres so that they are “clean, green and safe” for customers.
“I do not want Penang to have first-class infrastructure but with third-class maintenance,” Bernama reported him telling the media after visiting the Balik Pulau Market with Balik Pulau MP Muhammad Bakhtiar Wan Chik and Penang Island City Council mayor Yew Tung Seang.
“I hope that over the next five years, the local councils will focus on the maintenance of these facilities so that they remain clean, green and safe for the people,” he said.
Bernama reported Chow saying that the usual complaints of customers were the bad maintenance of numerous markets and hawker centres, with many citing cleanliness and faulty facilities being major issues.
He added that over the past decade, the Penang government “had made improvements to the facilities at the markets and hawker centres and it was the duty of the local councils, traders and hawkers to undertake proper maintenance”.
He also told the traders and hawkers that these markets and hawker centres are “where they earned their livelihood and they should have a sense of ownership in keeping them clean and safe”.
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