Decline the conferment, Voon tells Rosmah

Kuching (Feb 15, 2012): PKR Wanita vice president Voon Shiak Ni urged Rosmah Mansor, Najib's wife, to quietly decline or defer the conferment of the doctorate degree from Curtin University.

"It is not the time for her as she has not shown that there is result from her work to set up pre-schools in rural Sarawak, eventhough she has been allocated RM1.1 billion to do so," Voon said today.

Voon recalled that she and  two other members of PKR Wanita handed over a memorandum to Rosmah in Feb 2010.

"Rosmah was accompanying her husbands to Kuching then. At a lunch, after an official function officiated by Rosmah, we handed over to her the memorandum from PKR Wanita highlighting issues including the rape of the Penan women and girls in Sarawak and the need to improve the education and health of the communities in Sarawak," Voon said.

"Unfortunately, none has seen improvement or remedial action been undertaken," she said.

Voon said for two years Rosmah has not lifted a finger yet to even respond to PKR Wanita or to give assistance to the women NGOs for them to help what is necessary for women and children.

"We wish to tell her this. Set up pre-schools withing the settlements of the Penans and the others in the interior of Sarawak immediately to ensure that these rural children have equal opportunity for early childhood education.

"Rosmah has to earn the conferment of the doctorage degree," Voon added.