I refer to your news report Motion to cut minister's pay by RM10 rejected .

Fong has failed the Barisan Nasional administration with the help of the many innovative and highly-corrupted industrial training programmes implemented during his tenure as human resources minister.

Malaysia has failed in its competitiveness to attract foreign investors as our labour productivity has declined. This is partly due to the high cost and irrelevant industrial training programme which were implemented in 1998.

Since 1995, Malaysia had faced the problem of a skilled labour shortage. Many local and foreign joint-venture companies have urged the Malaysian government to upgrade the quality and productivity of local workers through vocational training programmes.

Electronic factories, meanwhile demanded for the relaxation of foreign workers intake rules to alleviate the skilled labour shortage in their industry.

In response to this, under the Seventh Malaysia Plan (1996-2000), the government decided to build seven training centres to train 10,000 skilled workers. However, the implementation of these projects have been riddled with corruption and they have failed to deliver the skilled workers needed by the related industries.

Unqualified, politically-linked companies (PLCs) were given vocational training status (MLVK) without appraisal. Trainees were then recruited on an ad hoc just to finish up the grant allocated for the project.

The import of labour services to cushion the economic upturn has cost the country dearly as a result.Malaysia records (officially, that is) more than a million formal foreign workers working in the country.

This has caused many unwarranted social problems in Malaysian society that threatened our social order. The situation has become critical

The influx of these foreign workers can also be blamed on PLCs who saw foreign workers recruitment as a cash cow. They have emerged as the human trading cartel that lead in multilevel human exploitation and oppressive commercial activities.

Many illegal foreign workers are now stranded in Malaysia. Many of these illegals can't take up the government's amnesty programme as they have not even been paid their wages much less have enough for the fare back home. Some have had their passports illegally held by their former employers.

Why have the related issues of local skilled workers and foreign workers remained unsolved by the Human Resources Ministry since 1995? Fong has no creditable achievements in his effort to reduce the foreign work force.

In fact, his 'skills' has resulted in more intake of foreign workers from new countries like Nepal, Vietnam and India - for the sake of his own personal, political agenda.