Prime Minster Hun Sen Ordered the Local Authorities of All Levels not to Sell the Kindergartens and Health Centers

via Khmer NZ News Media

Thursday, 24 June 2010 13:09 DAP-NEWS/ Tep Piseth .

CAMBODIA, PHNOM PENH, 25 June, 2010- Cambodian Prime Minster Hun Sen ordered the local authorities of all levels not to sell the Kindergartens and Health Centers both in Phnom Penh City and in various provincial towns, including all the Kindergartens and Health Centers in the downtowns in Cambodia.

Prime Minster Hun Sen said after there had been a small number of the government officials who have so far sold the Kindergartens and Health Centers, especially in Phnom Penh City to the local and foreign businesspeople.

For gaining their own benefits, it has been generally noted that those government officials have given these or those reasons for selling the state's public properties. Prime Minster Hun Sen on Thursday of June 24, 2010, gave a speech to the participants who are the civil servants, the workers, and the Cambodian people as whole at the inaugural Ceremony of Kbal Thnal First Historic Bridge, which cost more than 6 Million US dollars.

"All the Kindergartens and health centers in Phnom Penh must be kept intact and if the government does not have enough money to renovate it right now, it can do it later", he said.

"Also, Prime Minister Hun Sen does not allow anybody to give him this or that reason for changing the locations of kindergartens and health centers, especially these kindergartens should be kept intact for the children," he stressed.

Mr. Rong Chhun ,President of Cambodian Independent Teachers' Association, expressed his congratulations on Prime Minister Hun Sen's orders, but also urged the government officials to effectively implement the orders, adding that a series of orders given by Prime Minster Hun Sen does not seem effective.

"Last time, there were some cases of selling the national education department and other places in Phnom Penh, so government officials should implement the Prime Minster's orders and take an effective step to prevent these activities, " Rong Chhun Confirmed. Regarding the improvement of the city's beauty, Prime Minister Hun Sen called on the Phnom Penh Municipal Hall to renovate and rebuild the parks for the Cambodian people to visit and to work out.

At the same time, he also called on the Cambodian people as a whole to participate in taking care of hygiene and public orders and to avoid throwing the trash and other legacies in the public areas and the parks, and especially to contribute to taking care of the beauty of Phnom Penh City.