LANGKAWI: Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad said the government’s proposal to take foreign workers from Africa to cater to the requirement in the plantation sector, was still at the proposal stage.
The prime minister was asked to comment on a statement by Human Resources Minister M. Kula Segaran yesterday that the government was mulling taking in foreign workers from Africa for the plantation sector.
“I am of the opinion that there are many people in Malaysia but the Malaysians do not want to work, so we give everything to the others.
"On the proposal, we have not made any option, it was merely a suggestion,” he told reporters after attending a Hari Raya Aidilfitri Open House for the Langkawi Parliamentary Constituency at the Sports Complex of the Langkawi Development Authority (Lada), here.-Bernama