GOVERNMENT'S RM200 BOOK VOUCHERS BEING ABUSED?

-THE BOOK VOUCHERS ARE TO EASE THE STUDENT'S & CERTAINLY NOT MEANT TO MAKE SOME FAST CASH

THE ADS OPENLY OFFERING TO SELL THE BOOK VOUCHERS IN FACEBOOK

DESPITE the government's sincere effort to ease the financial burden faced by higher learning students by providing them with the one-off RM200 book-vouchers aid, a handful of them somehow were not that "appreciative" with the assistance when they were said to had sold their vouchers to a third party, just slightly lower than its worth.

As seen in an advertisement dated January 19, 2012 posted in the Facebook (above), the advertiser without no feelings of guilt committing any offense or what so ever boldly and openly made the offer to sell the RM200 book vouchers for RM190, five per cent lesser than its actual worth.

This ad was noticed by an UnReportedNews™®'s correspondent who then took the initiative to go undercover as an interested buyer and according to my correspondent, the advertiser currently have FOUR RM200 book vouchers and he would have no problem to obtain another six vouchers (my correspondent asked for 10 vouchers) in a short period & he is willing to sell them at RM180 a piece (meaning to say that the advertiser might had bought them less than RM180 a piece!)

The one-off RM200 book-vouchers aid for the higher-learning students are actually subsidies and selling them is an offence.

In another word, a portion of the RM50.2 bil allocated to the education announced in the federal budget 2012 tabled by Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak in parliament in October last year literally went into the drain or in better words "into the pockets of the opportunists."

Deputy minister of Higher Education Datuk Saifuddin Abdullah was quoted later saying, "The incentive must not be MISUSED and the RM200 are certainly not REDEEMABLE for cash as this is the government’s way of helping students are books at this level are getting more expensive and many students are facing difficulties in buying them."

This aid which was initially meant for our students obviously had been abused and what we seen here could be just the "tip of the iceberg" therefore, relevant government agencies such as education department, finance department and even the home ministry must monitor closely or find an effective solution to prevent this matter to continue further before things goes out of hand.

-UnReportedNews™®