Stimulate yourselves!

NSC director-general, Datuk Zolkples Embong, who underwent a triple bypass surgery last Saturday, has had to inherit a statutory body that owes NSAs money. This picture was taken Thursday night. Earlier Yang di-Pertuan Agong Tuanku Mizan Zainal Abidin visited Zol and I'm certain the stadium laying in ruins at Gong Badak was a topic of conversation between them.

Malay Mail ran a good story on Thursday that not a single sen from the staggering RM210 million allocated to the Sports Ministry from the economic stimulus package would reach the high-performance sports family. Read here.

This is precisely the reason why I fought a certain politician's tendency to mess around with the National Sports Council's coffers not too long ago. The NSC, established under the NSC Act in 1971, can source for their own funds and is not entirely dependant on Government funding. Due to NSC's frugal policy, it had close to RM300 million in the bank up until 2005. But in recent years it has earned the dubious reputation of being profligate and financially reckless and extragavant. I shall continue this little bit of story soon by reminding politicians, past, present and future, of NSC's history.