RM2 Million Compensation for Temple Demolition? Minister Responds: "Where’s My Cut?"
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The controversy over the demolition of a Hindu temple took a hilarious turn when rumors surfaced that the government had offered a RM2 million compensation. However, Health Minister Zaliha Mustafa swiftly shut down the speculation, calling it "baseless and imaginative"—a rare acknowledgment that not all government spending vanishes mysteriously.
While some were furious at the idea of taxpayers' money being used for reparations, others were even more enraged to learn that the compensation didn’t exist in the first place. “If we’re making things up, can we at least make them beneficial to me?” one netizen lamented.
Temple supporters, meanwhile, remain skeptical, stating that if the government isn’t paying up, it’s only because they haven’t yet figured out how to take a cut from it.
The whole fiasco has left the public divided—some disappointed by the alleged payout, others disappointed that there wasn’t one, and a select few disappointed that they weren’t the ones spreading the rumor in the first place.
