Bersih organisers 'childish', says Abdul Rahman

The Bersih 4 rally organisers are childish and imbecile, said Urban Wellbeing, Housing and Local government minister Datuk Abdul Rahman Dahlan.

This was Abdul Rahman's terse message to the rally organisers for their reluctance to pay the cleaning and their subsequent mocking about the wrong address for service.

“Bersih insisted they would clean up their mess before leaving the venue of demonstration. That’s a lie. I have photos showing Bersih’s heaps of rubbish and the clean up job done by Alam Flora’s personnel,” he said.

He also added that not only Bersih failed to clean up after their mess, they also failed to prevent their supporters from urinating everywhere, showing their disregard for public cleanliness and decency.

“I had to instruct Alam Flora to double up their effort to clean up the urine stench to avoid ruining the comfort of Malaysians who attended the Merdeka parade the following day.

“To add to their childish and imbecilic antic, Bersih now made fun of the wrong address incident when my officer tried to deliver the cleanup bill,” said Abdul Rahman in a statement Monday.

He asserted that he won’t be intimidated by the organisers’ scorn remarks as anyone could have done that mistake and wanted them to settle the amount.

“The cleanup bill must and will be delivered to them. And they must pay up especially when Maria Chin said they collected RM2.4 million of public money to help organise and manage the illegal demonstration,” he said.

The bill amounting to RM65,000 would not damage Bersih’s colossal funds and their persistent refusal to settle the bill only shows the organisers have taken the donors for a ride, he added.

Abdul Rahman had earlier stressed that the organisers should shoulder the responsibility to take the cleaning bill.