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The Cabinet will discuss assistance for the families of 54 Malaysians still missing following the Nepal flood disaster at its meeting on Friday (Oct 23).

Malaysia Solidarity: Families in Hope (Masfih) spokesman Dr Manivannan Rethinam said the assurance was given by Prime Minister Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim after a meeting at Parliament on Tuesday (Oct 20).

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00:00Just to share a bit, I had five family presence from the 54 families, representing the 54 families.
00:10And we had quite a long, closed-door meeting with the Prime Minister.
00:17He understands the challenges, the issues the families are facing.
00:23But when we shared some of the issues, EES, you know, like the National Coordination as the number one action.
00:30Because currently, for example, we as a family members, we need to go to multiple agencies to get our things
00:36done.
00:37For example, last week we went to Bank Negara to get their, you know, we presented on the issues.
00:44But there are also other agencies like Bursa, like, for example, for our Puan, the agency from the LPPSA, which
00:52handles the government housings.
00:54And they seem to be not understanding the moratorium that the Bank Negara has asked to assist.
00:58In fact, Puan Azila has been asked to pay the bank loans.
01:03Or she faces, you know, three, four months with default, it will be auctioned off or lay long.
01:10So these are the things I think the family does not need to go through.
01:14And these are some of the examples we highlighted to the Prime Minister.
01:19And the Prime Minister is very compassionate.
01:21At the same time, he also understands our families are still missing.
01:26So there are certain legal requirements.
01:28But at the same time, he has committed.
01:30He has agreed that he will appoint a coordinating person from the Ministry.
01:36One of the things we will hope the Prime Minister will consider is we, as a family,
01:41we have discussed and we got some feedbacks from the MPs and some lawyers.
01:45The best coordinating ministry that should be assisting our family should be under the second finance minister,
01:53Dr. Sri Amei Ramza.
01:56And hopefully, he will be willing to coordinate because almost all ministries will be dealing with finance ministries.
02:03And that will be the most appropriate approach to handle it.
02:07So we appealed to the Prime Minister.
02:09The Prime Minister also assured us he will bring this matter to the Cabinet meeting coming Friday for a decision.
02:17He also said, like ministers like Anthony Loke and many other ministers have approached him to, how to say, about
02:29our issues.
02:30And they will discuss it in the Cabinet.
02:32I also like to thank our YB Anthony Loke for arranging the meeting to have the meeting happen today.
02:41I also like to thank YB Gunaraj George and who's been assisting the family from the early,
02:49at least in terms of, not in monetary, but at least in terms of moral support.
02:54So, so far, the good news is even the one of, we also asked for a financial aid.
03:00So far, none of the families have received any financial aids, whether from government or private sectors,
03:07except for three families in Penang, where the Hindu Endowment Board supported the three families with 5,000 one-off
03:16support.
03:17And while Yayasan Kabadji Khan gave 500, and the Deputy Minister for Women and Community, then she gave 1,000.
03:26So that's the only three families of it is, but we have many other families.
03:30And I'd like to clarify, maybe I'll speak in Malay as well, keluarga kita bukan tiada duit,
03:38bukan kita minta orang ulurkan bantuan.
03:41Masalahnya keluarga kita, bank mengejar bayaran, bayaran kereta, bayaran rumah, credit card,
03:50tetapi duit dalam bank tu kami tak boleh sentuh.
03:53Macam keluarga ibu bapa yang hilang.
03:55Anak-anak macam mana nak bayar, apabila duit akaun ibu bapa tu tak dapat dia ambil,
04:00tapi bayaran untuk, orang kata apa, liability untuk ibu bapa tu diminta bayar.
04:06Itulah kita punya permintaan.
04:08Sekurang-kurangnya tangguhkanlah bayaran-bayaran ni.

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