NSTnation: “This is totally unexpected, unplanned. I didn’t know that I would be appointed.'
This was announced by Chief Minister Chow Kon Yeow during a press conference at his office in Komtar today.Chow said Norlela’s name was the only one given by the state PKR to fill the post left by Dr Afif.“She will hold the Agriculture and Agro-based Industry, Rural Development and Health portfolio,” he said.On March 4, Dr Afif submitted his resignation as a state executive councillor.Dr Afif had also admitted to being pressured by various quarters to relinquish his post.
“In terms of agriculture and agro-based industry and rural development, I have been working with the various target groups in my capacity as the assemblyman. Norlela, 57, a two-term assemblyman, previously worked as the senior principal analyst in the Malaysia Industry-Government Group for High Technology under the Prime Minister’s Department.
She had lamented that she had been waiting for the winding-up speeches for two years for replies to the issues she had raised regarding the woes that include infrastructure for homestay programmes, lack of infrastructure like roads, frequent flooding, illegal factories, as well as the lack of proper jetties for fishermen.
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