PM: Youngsters benefit most from country’s transformation agenda

PEKAN: Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak said yesterday the country’s transformation agenda would bring most benefits to young people, and they should support the agenda for a more glorious future for themselves. Najib Razak Najib Razaksaid young people were the most important asset of the country in its march towards greater prosperity and well-being.

“Young people should support the national transformation agenda because the agenda will bring benefits in the short and long term.“When Malaysia becomes a developed nation, the beneficiaries will be the young people of today. In fact, we do not have to wait until 2020 for the young people to gain from the transformation agenda,” he said when opening the Pekan Vision Children’s Club (Kawan) at the IM4U Fair 2013 at DataranPekan, here.

Najib’s wife, Datin Seri RosmahMansor, and Domestic Trade, Cooperatives and Consumerism Minister Datuk Seri Ismail SabriYaakob were also present at the event. Najib Razak said it was important that the young people be given guidance so that they understood the transformation undertaken by the government.

“If the young people of today can be nurtured, they can contribute to a more glorious future,” he said.

Najib Razak said the government was of the opinion that youngsters were the nation’s asset, and it had to formulate policies and implement programmes for them and for national development.The prime minister said the government had never marginalised young people as it had provided them with various educational and training programmes and employment opportunities.

On another matter, Najib said he was confident that young people would always respect the country’s security forces who sacrificed their lives to defend

the nation’s sovereignty. — BernamaThe prime minister also said that the “JelajahPatriotik” (Patriotic Tour) had begun in LahadDatu and would move on to Sarawak and then to the peninsula.

This showed that the security forces had the support of the people, even the young, he added.

“I was given an army-style cap, my wife is wearing army-style boots today,” he said.

Najib said he would attend a programme on Monday with the police force and would explain the Sulu terrorist intrusion in LahadDatu.