Sepatutnya sebagai seorang Timbalan Menteri, Ahmad Maslan sewajarnya berfikir dulu sebelum berkata-kata, bukannya main bedal saja ikut suka dia..
Dalam isu penculikan di Kepulauan Pom Pom baru-baru ini, beliau menyifatkan kejadian tersebut sebagai kes terpencil..
Dan dalam masa yang sama menegaskan banyak lagi tempat-tempat yang menarik yang ada dalam negara ini untuk dilawati.
Dengan berkata begitu ayatnya bolehlah ditafsirkan sebagai 'Takut kena culik jangan lawat Pulau Pom-Pom..' samalah macam kenyataan Menteri Ayam hari tu..
Memang banyak tempat yang boleh kita lawati, tetapi Ahmad Maslan sewajarnya memikirkan apakah nasib para pengusaha resort dikepulauan itu, andaikata para pelancong menjauhi Kepulauan tersebut?
Apa salahnya jika beliau berkata Kerajaan akan tingkatkan keselamatan dikawasan tersebut.. sekurang-kurangnya ramai pelancong akan rasa lebih terjamin keselamatannya..
Fikirlah jauh sikit sebelum bercakap tu...
Many other places for tourists to go, Sabah kidnap no impact, says Putrajaya
Putrajaya has shrugged off concerns that the abduction of a Taiwanese tourist from an island resort off Sabah will affect the economy.
Deputy Finance Minister Datuk Ahmad Maslan( pic), describing the incident on Pom Pom island off Semporna as isolated, said Malaysia being a vast country has many other places to offer tourists.
“We have Sarawak and Peninsular Malaysia for people to visit. Kuala Lumpur and Pom Pom are far from each other and Kuala Lumpur is not affected," Ahmad Maslan said in Parliament today, in reply to Sabah's Kalabakan MP Datuk Seri Abdul Ghapur Salleh.
Ghapur had warned that the incident could strike fear among tourists planning to visit Malaysia, especially to the east coast of Sabah, affecting the economy and the value of the ringgit.
He said even MPs from the east coast of Sabah were afraid that intruders would kidnap people with "value".
Ahmad Maslan, acknowledging that the incident caused some travel agents to issue an alert, however went on to say that Kuala Lumpur was chosen as the world's fourth shopping paradise.
"Visit Malaysia Year 2014 will not be affected," he stressed adding that he was confident that the authorities will be able to nab the intruders.
In the incident last Friday, Taiwanese tourist Chang An Wei was abducted by intruders while her husband Hsu Li Min, 57, was found dead with two bullets in his chest.
Malaysian police believe the kidnappers are linked to a terrorist group Abu Sayyaf.
Taiwanese daily Taipei Times quoted the Inspector-General of Police Tan Sri Khalid Abu Bakar as saying last Saturday that the southern Philippine militant group could be behind the incident.
Khalid said the terrorists were able to slip into the resort as the Philippine armed forces were busy in relief works in the aftermath of Typhoon Haiyan, Police meanwhile said the kidnappers had yet to demand a ransom.
Ghapur had previously flayed the Eastern Sabah Security Command set up by Putrajaya several months ago to stop incursions by foreign terrorists into Sabah.
"This is very disappointing because it shows that Esscom is not functioning properly," Abdul Ghapur had told The Malaysian Insider.
"If these attacks are happening again, it will discourage tourists from visiting Semporna and Sipadan. This will cause Sabah to lose its tourism revenue" ~ The Malaysian Insider