PETALING JAYA: The Malaysia E-Hailing Drivers Association (MeHDA) today urged a university don to apologise over his “distasteful remarks” over e-hailing riders.
MeHDA president Daryl Chong said Universiti Putra Malaysia economic analyst Mohd Yusof Saari had claimed that motorcycle food delivery riders and e-hailing drivers are in occupations which do not have any dignity.
He said Yusof had made these comments when asked about shared prosperity during a Budget 2020 dialogue, aired on Oct 11 on TV3.
Yusof had claimed that more and more young people these days chose to be in this profession.
Chong said e-hailing drivers ferry passengers as a halal source of income and many of them had little career options due to various unforeseen circumstances and unfortunate situations.
“Rather than getting involved with illegal activities for income, we choose to become e-hailing drivers to earn an honest living or make some pocket money through what we currently have in our hands — a vehicle and the ability to drive!” he said in a statement.
“What Dr Mohd Yusof failed to recognise was that not everyone in Malaysia is as lucky as him to get an education, have a degree and read a PhD from the University of Groningen in the Netherlands.”
Chong said Yusof’s remarks were “truly disparaging, uncalled for, insensitive and hurtful”.
He regretted the lack of empathy towards e-riders from such a learned person. - FMT
Hiding behind his academic credential as UPM economic analyst is shameful. Go get your PSV and try driving an e-hailing car for a few days, see whether you can do it or not. Don;t just talk behind your desk in your posh office. Go out there and feels the struggle others are confronting with current economic situation and later analyze through economic viewpoint what to do to help people to overcome the hardship they are facing. Or maybe you are not an analyst after all, just another ANUS with a skill to do ANAL???
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