Newly-minted federal territories minister Hannah Yeoh today emphasised that her ethnicity had never prevented her from carrying out her duties, following questions raised by some over her appointment to the post.
She said her focus had always been on the policies at hand, their implementation and their results.
“Since 2008, whether as the Subang Jaya assemblyman, the Selangor state assembly speaker, Segambut MP, deputy women, family and community development minister, or youth and sports minister, my focus has always been on the work, not skin colour,” she told reporters after clocking in at her new ministry.
Also present was her deputy, Lo Su Fui.
Yeoh took over the portfolio from Dr Zaliha Mustafa in last week’s Cabinet reshuffle.
PAS secretary-general Takiyuddin Hassan subsequently claimed that the appointments of Yeoh and Lo to the portfolio was a deliberate strategy to…