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PLUS given 24-hour ultimatum to immediately withdraw unilateral, arbitrary and illegal fines on North-South Expressway users for allegedly �overstaying� in the expressway or face nation-wide protests
Media Statement by Lim Kit Siang (Ipoh, Thursday): I have received irate calls from the public following today�s report in the Sin Chew Daily that PLUS has without notice, as well as unreasonably and illegally, started to impose fines on North-South Expressway users for allegedly �overstaying� in the expressway. It quoted a PLUS spokesman as saying that starting today, the North-South Expressway concessionaire has started to implement the new penalty, whereby North-South Expressway users who �overstayed� the permitted time period on the expressway would be fined at the toll exit point.
I call on the Works Minister, Datuk Seri S. Samy Vellu to immediately stop PLUS from unilaterally, arbitrarily and illegally imposing fines on North-South Expressway users for allegedly �overstaying� on the expressway � as if PLUS has become a law unto itself, with powers to impose unreasonable and even ridiculous regulations.
PLUS will be acting as a �highwayman� if it is allowed to go scot-free on such an oppressive measure.
Irate members of the public complained that what PLUS has done is the height of irresponsibility for a corporate citizen, as well as utterly anti-social, as motorists should not be threatened with �fines� for �over-resting�, which can only lead to higher accident rates costly to lives and property.
PLUS should apologise for such ridiculous and high-handed regulation, return every sen of illegal fine imposed since yesterday, sack the official responsible for the decision and give a solemn undertaking that there would be no repetition of such manifestation of utter lack of CSR � corporate social responsibility.
DAP will mobilize nation-wide protest by North-South Expressway users and members of the public if such a ridiculous, arbitrary and illegal penalty is not withdrawn within 24 hours. |