NGO as Citizens & Consumers Watch is very much desired

NGO as Citizens & Consumers Watch is very much desired

After writing in Daily Express “ Need to solve ‘parking crisis’ within the city (Dec8,2019) and “once rich North Borneo stripped to the bare” (dec 15, 2019), we have now come to more serious matters in personal perspective for our own survival as personal securities like finance (possibilities of bankruptcy or even forthcoming destitution) , physical safety even in car parking spaces both open and basement/floors, food security endangering our health in the preparation of our foods from farms to tables and all sorts (including unthinkable scenarios)  that may happen to us in questioned environment.

It has been noticed that some carparks in multi storeyed buildings or complexes may have non functional CCTV for the personal safety of consumers as undesirable behaviour or incidents have been encountered.  Sometimes the lifts in such places can be safety adverse to the consumers. Some vehicles including those e-hailing ones have installed cameras for their own safety but too few to make the desired impact for safe mobility.

 A very young girls walked innocently to her five-storeyed plunged death as filmed/videoed by her own mother for the missing floor plank.

Contagious diseases in our midst like revived polio and increasing cases of TB plus other items unknown to us have come back to society.  There are some people who just fall down and died.

Sabah is known to have vast numbers of illegal from other countries with questioned health status and now some leaders want to provide them continued stay in Sabah under Pas Sementara Sabah (PSS) to further ‘swamp’ us as after PSS is implemented, there is nowhere that we can stop more such people entering porous coastline in Sabah. The scenario of ‘trojan horses’ with all sort of questioned behaviour, characters and background has been with us for decades hence endangering genuine Sabahans beyond control.

Many maybe singing the signature year-end song known as Auld Lang Syne and how we do that in 2019 in grand style or just over a cup of coffee. Also we are also in the season of winter solstice largely practised by the Chinese people in deep winter China where relatives and friends may not see each other again.

As we enter a new decade in a few moment in this Christmas 2019, we must make an effort to keep watch on ALL our personal securities as times have become more critical in most areas of our livelihood and living conditions in personal safety in our movement, our challenges in health and the foods (healthwise?) we consume especially in our time out, our driving, our mobility and our car parks-in doors or out doors with or without CCTV - in operations or just dummy to mislead the consumers by the owners and operators of those areas including public building owners.

So it is no longer that we remain complacent or indifferent to our very own personal security as earlier mentioned in this letter. It is no longer for us to have this attitude that we act only to various scenarios as they occur. We must now take care for our public interest and how to face those challenges at all times.

 Taking care alone in a public scenario is inadequate to ensure our good situation hence we need to set up a corporate voluntary action group like Citizens & Consumers Watch or CCW or SEE SEE Watch to be always on alert at all times to safeguard our own personal securities.

For the genuine local Sabahans with many pressing needs in personal securities we need CCW or SEE SEE watch and be united in concerted effort to mitigate our personal securities to enable us to live in peace and harmony as in decades prior to Malaysia in 1963. We owe this to ourselves, our children and next generation.

So in See See Watch, we keep in touch with your common relationship whilst so many are been embedded in our modern technology of communication lost in the personal touch. Also many are too involved with politicking possibly with futile results.

So over to our local leaders to show genuine concern for all of us in Citizens & Consumers Watch to form such an NGO promptly. Daily Express may take the lead as well.

 Joshua Y C Kong 17/12/2019