YOURSAY ‘Scandals may be swept under the carpet but not starving humans.’

Open your mansion to the poor, Ku Nan told

Versey: There is a positive correlation between the number of poor and homeless in a country and the degree of corruption, poor governance, inefficiency in the allocation of resources of its government.

The government should make sure the nation's resources are efficiently allocated and well-managed.

Please clean up corruption, the religious and racial bigots that hurts the nation's well being in all aspects, deterring the betterment of the country, not the homeless.

SteveOh: When did being poor and homeless become a crime? The last thing Malaysia needs is a minister with a Mr Scrooge mentality who picks on society's vulnerable and needy and makes life more difficult for them and those who help them.

Scandals may be swept under the carpet but not starving humans. What is happening to Malaysia?

Disgusted: If Federal Territories Minister Tengku Adnan Tengku Mansor says that the homeless and the destitute tarnish the city’s image, then Umnoputras tarnish the nation's name with their filthy corruption and inept running of the country.

Look at all the bungling in handling MH370 and New Zealand embassy staff case. Most foreigners who have stayed here know about the corruption and ineptitude of the BN-ruled government.

Even foreigners who have not been here know about the religious and racial bigots because of their statements and actions circulated though foreign news channels such as CNN, Fox and Al Jazeera which they can't control, as well as the Internet.

So who is disgracing the country - the poor and needy or the filthy rich politicians and racial and religious bigots?

The Umnoputras are so caught up in a world of their own in flaunting their wealth so much so they consider poor Malaysians as the scum of the earth, and only valued for their votes.

Non: In Australia recently, politicians and company CEOs took their sleeping bags and joined the homeless for a night. They at least had sleeping bags, the true homeless mostly had cardboard boxes, in mid-winter.

Despite the difference in the sleeping 'comfort', however, the big shots surely got at least a small taste of what it must be like to sleep rough and at the same time worrying about your next meal and the safety of your person and meagre belongings.

I think it is time our 'big shots' did the same.

Urkidding: Getting rid of the poor in the city does not mean eradication of poverty, Mr Minister. And being poor is never a crime.

Do you have a master plan to eradicate the poor in the country? Any blueprint that is effective enough? It should be the government's duty to take care of the helpless and destitute.

AA: In any society, there are always people who cannot "make it" for some reasons. It is the responsibility of the government and other fellow human beings to lend them a helping hand.

The authority should not make things difficult for organisations providing daily meals to those in need. Instead, it should do all it can to assist, and more than that, to liaise with those organisations to find ways to address the root causes that lead to poverty and homelessness.

Abasir: This ‘Tengku’ has yet to clear himself of his personal involvement in the fixing of judicial appointments.

As such, PKR vice-president N Surendran is naive to expect him assume responsibility for the urban poor. Umno does not appoint anyone to ministerial positions on the basis of common sense, high integrity, competence or decency.

If that were the case (and this callous ‘Tengku’ had somehow slipped through the cracks), Umno's serial tweeters would have filled Twitterjaya with high pitched condemnation.

The fact that none of them are in support of what ordinary Malaysians are united in saying, underscores the rot in the regime.

Ksn: Ku Nan and his government do not care about the homeless and the poor. He is being a dog in the manger by saying that helping the beggars is an offence.

If these people, the poor and homeless are Malaysian, the government of the day must be held responsible for their situation.

If they are foreigners, they must be sent back to their homelands, and the Immigration Department and the Royal Malaysian Police (PDRM) must be held responsible for them being in the country.

It will be good not to have beggars on our streets but the problem must be solved in a humane way and not the cruel, barbaric and unintelligent ways of Ku Nan.

Moontime: Those who refuse to learn from history are condemned to repeat it ad infinitum. Tengku Adnan sure sounded like Marie Antoinette during the heyday of the French absolute monarchy right before the revolution.

It looks like this man has no sympathy at all for the downtrodden. What with his hob-nobbing with the nouveau riche and politically powerful warlords.

Anon1: Hopefully nobody decides to make a joke about this by dropping pamphlets/notices all around Kuala Lumpur that there will be a daily "buka puasa" open house for the homeless/destitute at Tengku Adnan's four-storey mansion.

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