FORMER prime minister Najib Razak today urged three Pakatan Harapan MPs, including Finance Minister Lim Guan Eng who campaigned against Lynas Malaysia, to resign after failing to shut the firm down.

Najib named Lim, Bentong MP Wong Tack and Kuantan MP Fuziah Salleh, who now had to bear the brunt of a failed election promise. 

He said the least the three individuals could do was to apologise to Malaysians that they had failed in their anti-Lynas crusade.

“Lim had promised to shut down the plant in Kuantan, saying the operating the plant is the same as operating a nuclear plant.

“Wong Tack also took to the streets in Dataran Merdeka, along with 2,000 protesters, to voice their opposition on Lynas.

“Fuziah, on the other hand, won the Kuantan federal seat for campaigning on the Lynas issue.

“But Prime Minister Dr Mahathir Mohamad said Lynas’ permit will be extended for another six months, and there’s also a possibility that it might be allowed to store their rare earths in Malaysia,” he said during the opening of Papar Umno delegates meeting in Lok Kawi, Sabah today.

Najib said this after pointing out there was a growing realisation among Malaysians that they had made a mistake in voting for Pakatan Harapan in the last general election.

Stopping Lynas was one of the election promises that the coalition has failed to deliver after coming into power since May 9 last year.

“I want to ask Lim, Fuziah and Wong, do they have any sense of principles and dignity?

“If you do, you must resign or at least apologise to Malaysians for cheating on them.”

He said that 200 engineers in Sabah are expected to be out of work following Putrajaya’s decision to abolish the project delivery partner in the Pan-Borneo highway project.

“The people are seeing now the failures of the Pakatan government and many have regretted for voting them in.

“Maybe it is the slander and negative perceptions painted on me that gave it all away.

“But when I visited Felda, many parents there told me that it was their children who persuaded them to vote Pakatan as it promised to write off their national higher education debts.”

Instead, Najib said, those who had defaulted their students loan are being threatened bankruptcy and blacklisted.

The former Umno president said the government had also hinted on raising the university fees. – August 4, 2019.