Yen Yen becomes more unpopular over Facebook

Tourism Minister Ng Yen Yen may insist that her Cabinet colleagues had accepted her explanation, but even so, she is getting more and more unpopular following the RM1.8 billion Facebook scandal.An online poll set up a few days ago on Facebook, asking if Ng should step down over the controversy, has already chalked 16,548 'ayes'.Another sign of the writing on the wall is the official Tourism Ministry's Facebook page, which recorded only 38,260 'likes' - far short of her year-end target of 120,000 by year- end.

 By contras, a parody Facebook page named 'Curi-curi Wang Malaysia' registered an overwhelming 110,290 fans in just a few days.Nonetheless, Yen Yen appears to ready to brazen it out. She refuted reports that the Cabinet did not accept her explanation on why and how she could spend so much on 6 Facebook pages.



Explanation accepted or noted?


In a brief statement, she said that the Cabinet accepted her explanation during its weekly meeting in Putrajaya.
She also reiterated that the RM1.8 million was not spent on solely developing the Facebook page for the ministry.The Chinese press had reported that during the Cabinet meeting, a few ministers had questioned Ng.
The controversy erupted when Ng's deputy James Dawos Mamit revealed in a parliamentary reply that the six-month campaign on the ministry's Facebook page named 'Cuti-cuti 1Malaysia' had cost the government RM1.8 million.However, Ng later claimed that the money was for the entire 'integrated social media campaign' and was more than just setting up a Facebook page.


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